Protest Camp’s Anna Feigenbaum takes on tear gas at #OccupyGezi and beyond Over the past five days Turkey’s government has unleashed thousands of canisters, cartridges and helicopter drums of tear…

How do we grow a vibrant community of education researchers? In an earlier post I talked about how skill shares can be complimented by  problem-shares to strengthen our research communities….

The ZAD protests have received little in the way of mainstream media coverage, particularly outside of France, despite being the biggest Euro-Zone action camp in history. Citizen, independent and social…

Last week Protest Camps hosted a roundtable looking at issues of innovation and creativity in place-based social movement activism. We asked doctoral student and teacher Sean T. Leavey from the…

This week I had the opportunity to speak on the panel at McGill University ‘Future of Feminist Theory: Publishing, Networks and Conferences, Or, how to be the feminist you want…

Protest Camp’s Anna Feigenbaum discusses No Dash for Gas‘ West Burton power station  protest camp in the broader context of direct action and Climate Justice. As Hurricane Sandy swept up the Eastern seaboard of…

 In 1981, Baudrillard wrote that “Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.” Last week in my History of Consumer Society and…

This summer sees the publication of two new special features on encampments and occupations in South Atlantic Quarterly and Social Movement Studies. Protest Camps’ had the opportunity to contribute to both of…

I just got back from attending the fourth and final workshop on collaborative learning from the Community-powered Digital Transformation project run by David Gauntlett and colleagues at the University of…