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[ecrea] June 7th Workshop: Protest Camps and Beyond

Fri Apr 28 22:50:16 GMT 2017




Protest Camps and Beyond: Temporality, Informality, Memory and Care

Wed 7 June 2017
10:00 - 18:00
Ken Edwards Building Room 527
University Road, University of Leicester
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Register at eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/protest-camps-and-beyond-temporality-informality-memory-and-care-tickets-34035557268 ?

Camps offer an increasingly visible form of housing and shelter in the contemporary world. Notionally temporary, camps seem to form a permanent social reality reflecting an increasingly permanent state of crisis of social reproduction globally. We witness, on the one hand, state and supra-state agencies employing camps as attempts to manage flows of migration and refuge, or in responses to natural disasters. On the other hand, camps emerge more autonomously, in defiance of the control associated with the managerial provision of care, and in response to the limits of state and supra-state care provision. Finally camps have become an ever more present social movement tactic, often explicitly addressing concerns of social reproduction.

Following Hailey's (2009) typology camps can be cast as expressions of necessity, control and autonomy. In the context of the contemporary proliferation of camp architectures, it seems evidence that those three types of camps increasingly overlap. Protest camps, cast as autonomous expressions of political questionings of the status quo (Feigenbaum, Frenzel, & McCurdy, 2013) express concerns about a crisis of social reproduction. In recent years new protest camps have often focused on issues such as housing, but also addressed specifically the threats to life emerging from the continuous exploitation of natural resources. Protest camps form a site of contestation, but they also provide places in which sustainable and resilient alternatives are experimented with, created, and practiced. A key feature uniting many protest camps and other place-based protests is the politicisation of care. To the extent that camps produce forms of shelter and care, they also have to grapple with the challenges and contradictions of autonomous care provision.

In this one day seminar we want to approach the theme from three thematic angles:

1) Informality and Temporality
2) Memory and Visibility
3) Care as resilience and resistance

We will have inputs and provocations followed by discussions on each of the themes.

We finish the day with a book launch and celebration of the recently published Protest Camps In International Context edited by Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy.

Timetable
10:00 Gathering (Refreshments available)
10:30 Informality and Temporality
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Memory and Visibility
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Care as Resilience and Resistance
17:00 Book Launch Celebration for Protest Camps in International Context

The seminar is free to attend but places are limited. Register at eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/protest-camps-and-beyond-temporality-informality-memory-and-care-tickets-34035557268

Some travel bursaries are available to participants. To apply for a bursary please sent an email to Fabian Frenzel (ff48 /at/ leicester.ac.uk) explaining your interest in the seminar and possible contributions on the day.


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