Protest camps

From Tahrir Square to St Paul's Cathedral, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of activism, where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Examining over fifty protest camps over the past fifty years, this book offers a ground-breaking investigation into protest camps from a global perspective - a story that, until now, has remained untold.

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Cover -- About the authors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The multiple origins of organised camping -- 0.1 Global protest camps prior to 2011 -- What makes a 'protest camp'? -- The link between protest camps and (new) social movements -- Concept soup -- 0.2 The concept soup -- Infrastructural analysis and book structure -- 0.3 The infrastructures of protest camps -- An historical review of selected protest camps -- 0.4 Welcome tents like this one at Occupy Bristol form a central feature of many protest camps.

0.5 Tents in the evening sun at HoriZone protest camp, Stirling, July 2005 -- 0.6 The library of Occupy LSX -- 1 Infrastructures and practices of protest camping -- Introduction -- Protest camps and crafting a homeplace -- Infrastructures -- 1.1 A noticeboard at Heiligendamm anti-G8 camp in Germany, 2007 -- 1.2 The Oaxaca encampments in 2006 filled the city's streets -- 1.3 The spokescouncil model -- 1.4 Compost toilets are part of the holistic, permaculture-inspired, ecological outlook of protest camps -- Exposing the law.

1.5 Laws and legal battles can form part of the struggle to create camps -- 'Travelling' infr…