Protest Camps Wins Research Grants
The Protest Camps research collective is delighted to announce the award of a number of small grants to help fund our interviews with protest campers and archival research trips. Here…
Video Now Available: Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement
You can now watch Protest Camp Collective’s Anna Feigenbaum and Patrick McCurdy discuss the impacts of the Occupy movement, followed by a keynote address from award-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
Collaborative Learning: Challenges and Best Practices
Yesterday’s Collaborative Learning workshop, sponsored by the HEA, brought together HE teachers from Winchester, Bournemouth, Birmingham, University College Falmouth and University of Huddersfield. Below are some of the shared challenges and…
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…
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 is interviewed in the latest issue of FUSE Magazine
For its special issue on Egypt and the Arab Spring, Fuse editor Gina Badger asked Anna Feigenbaum to share her insights on social media and social change. Drawing on her…
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…
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…
“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…