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

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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