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.

Feminism.

Protest camps--Case studies.

Protest camps.

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