Protest Camps Hosts Roundtable to Announce its contract with Zed Books
Before the Arab Spring, our work on the transnational history of protest camping was generally regarded as “too niche”, or “quirky activist stuff for idealists”. But by April 2011, as…
“We have given the women a reasonable amount of time to make their protest, but they are trespassing and they must go.” -Cyril Woodard, Chairman of the Recreation and Amenities…
Protest Camps: A Great British Tradition
On the steps of St. Pauls Cathedral last Saturday, hunched over a cup of tea, the grumbled disdain of a British protester could be heard, “Here we go again, borrowing…
Occupy LSX Day Six: Excerpt from a Social Media ‘Scrapbook’
Day Six at Occupy LSX Brought students from my uni. They were full of questions, the kinds of questions that make you smile and stumble, rambling over words. Where there…
CCA Says “The Protest Camps project, by Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Patrick McCurdy, looks at an increasingly visible typology of struggle in uprisings and social struggles around the world, from Tahrir…
Place-based Protest: A Theory-Slam on Occupy Wall St
This protest is place-based yet does not seek to claim place as property. It enacts a ‘reclamation of space’ yet not in the form of confrontation or taking back. It…
Protest Camps presents at ‘Greenham Remembered’
On Sunday Anna Feigenbaum spoke at ‘Greenham Remembered,’ a 30th anniversary event celebrating the lives and legacies of Greenham women. Anna’s presentation focused on UK protest camps since the…
Protest Camps Presents at SKOL in Montreal
On June 29, 2011 Anna Feigenbaum gave a presentation at SKOL in Montreal as part of Artivistic‘s dialogues programme. In a talk that linked our research collective’s work on infrastructures…