Protest Camps in International context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Patrick McCurdy
Abstract
Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more and more protest camps have occurred in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries around the world. People camping out in protest captures the public imagination, making media headlines and often triggering violent police responses. Across the world ... More
Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more and more protest camps have occurred in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries around the world. People camping out in protest captures the public imagination, making media headlines and often triggering violent police responses. Across the world political leaders and security chiefs are concerned about the prospect of protest camps emerging, while everyday people are pegging their hopes and dreams on this form of coming together, in public, to voice their dissent. This book provides an in depth analysis of this new form of protest. With seventeen case studies from all around the world, it provides the most comprehensive study of protest camps to date.
Keywords:
protest camps,
social movements,
protests,
Occupy,
Politics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447329411 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447329411.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Gavin Brown, editor
University of Leicester
Anna Feigenbaum, editor
Bournemouth University
Fabian Frenzel, editor
University of Leicester
Patrick McCurdy, editor
University of Ottawa
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