Feminism and protest camps : entanglements, critiques and re-imaginings / edited by Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Eschle, Catherine, editor.
• Bartlett, Alison, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Feminism--Political aspects--Case studies.
• Protest camps--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In the wake of a global wave of mobilisation, this book offers an unprecedented interrogation of protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Using international case studies, it develops an intersectional analysis of protest camps and tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency.

Contents:

• Front Cover
• Feminism and Protest Camps: Entanglements, Critiques and Re- Imaginings
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Feminism/ Protest Camps
• Why a feminist book on protest camps?
• How is our approach to protest camps feminist?
• Outline of the book
• Notes
• References
• PART I Gendered Power and Identities in Protest Camps
• 2 Safe Spaces and Solidarity
• Introduction
• Theorising sexual violence within the context of social movements and protest camps
• Data and method
• The Occupy encampments and narratives of sexual violence
• Dismissive responses
• Safety for whom? Intersectional considerations
• Conclusion
• 3 The Pu.u We Planted
• Securing the posts to the paia: mana wahine and mana mahu
• E nana .ia mai ka hale o kakou: kia.i .ia, malama .ia, e pale aku
• Placed in the middle of patriarchal insecurity
• He Hale Mauna Wahine: o maila .o Lai.ila.i ka paia
• He Hale Mauna Mahu: heia ka pou, heia ka paia
• Ka .aha kia.i aloha: bound in the middle
• Glossary
• Note
• 4 'You Can't Kill the Spirit' (But You Can Try)
• The road out: my journey to Menwith Hill
• Watching the web
• Pitching up: feminist tendencies at peace camp
• Camp as a row of tents: gender at peace camp
• Making a home in women-only space
• 5 Women Activists, Gendered Power and Postfeminism in Taiwan's 'Sunflower Movement'
• Theoretical framework and research methods
• Gendered power in the 3/18 Movement
• A single-focus agenda
• Informal networks in decision-making
• The gendered division of labour
• Strategies responding to gendered hierarchies in the 3/18 Movement.
• Individualised strategy within a postfeminist context
• PART II Feminist Politics in and through Protest Camps
• 6 The Feminist Movement in Turkey and the Women of the Gezi Park Protests
• The Gezi Park protests
• The women's movement in Turkey and the Gezi protests
• Feminists and women in the Gezi protests
• 7 Feminism and Protest Camps in Spain
• From absence to centre stage: three scenarios for feminism in contemporary protest camps
• The protest camp spring
• Outraged feminists and queers in the 15-M camps
• #OrditFeminista: the International Women's Day feminist camp in Valencia
• Intersectionality and inclusivity in a 'non-mixed' protest camp
• Space as an object of social, political and affective struggle
• 8 'Why the Compost Toilets?'
• Background and approach
• Earth Activist Training
• Passing on movement lessons
• 'Movements are like waves, you have to catch them when they are rolling in'
• 'We dreamed of doing a whole encampment'
• Permaculture at the G8 Summit
• Mycelial networks, spiral dancing and cat's cradle
• PART III Feminist Theorising and Protest Camps
• 9 Protest Camps as 'Homeplace'?
• Theorising protest camps as sites of social reproduction
• Constructing homeplace at Occupy Glasgow and Faslane Peace Camp
• Reproducing Occupy Glasgow
• Reproducing Faslane Peace Camp
• 10 Project Democracy in Protest Camps
• Social reproduction and the expansion of civic duty
• Care ethics and project democracy
• Commons, interdependence and communal sharing
• References.
• 11 Feminised and Decolonising Reoccupations, Re-existencias and Escrevivências
• Reoccupying concepts and epistemology
• Our enfleshed voices in relation
• Women of Zé Maria do Tomé and the Mãos que Criam Cooperative
• Afro-Brazilian women's poetry collectives of the periphery: BaRRosas, Pretarau and Elaspoemas
• PART IV The Feminist Afterlives of Protest Camps
• 12 Feminism on Aboriginal Land
• Background: Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp, 1983
• Approach: critical theory, sources, scenes
• Women for Survival: nuclear politics, land rights and women
• Three scenes
• Scene one: racism, July 1983
• Scene two: men, November 1983
• Scene three: police, November 1983
• Entanglements and engagements
• 13 Remembering an Eco/Feminist Peace Camp
• Before Clayoquot: Greenham as cultural memory
• Clayoquot as an ecofeminist peace camp
• Researching an ecofeminist peace camp during the end of feminism
• Archiving an ecofeminist peace camp: creating the Clayoquot Lives archive
• Clayoquot as cultural memory
• 14 US Occupy Encampments and Their Feminist Tensions
• Feminist archiving in contexts that are not feminist
• Creating a feminist archive for the Occupy Movement
• Collecting the objects for archiving
• Designing a feminist archive
• Feminist archiving praxis
• Feminist absence and presence within the Occupy Archive
• 15 Greenham Women Everywhere
• Origins of Greenham Women Everywhere
• Interviewing Greenham women
• Representing and re-imagining Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
• Forgetting Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
• Greenham futures
• 16 Conclusion
• Rethinking protest camps.
• Power
• Space
• Body
• Language
• Rethinking feminism
• Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).

ISBN:

• 9781529220209
• 1529220203
• 9781529220186
• 1529220181
• 9781529220193
• 152922019X

OCLC:

1368321707