Protest Camps in International Context : Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
Brown, Gavin (EDT); Feigenbaum, Anna (EDT); Frenzel, Fabian (EDT); Mccurdy, Patrick (EDT)
ISBN 10: 1447329422 ISBN 13: 9781447329428
Published by Policy Press, 2018
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Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements’ contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.
About the Authors:
Gavin Brown is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. He is a cultural, historical and political geographer with wide-ranging research interests. His recent research has recorded the history of a four-year long anti-apartheid ‘protest camp’ in London in the 1980s. He tweets as @lestageog.
Anna Feigenbaum is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at Bournemouth University. Her work focuses on communication and social justice. She is a co-author of Protest Camps (Zed 2013) with Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy and the author of Tear Gas (Verso 2017). She tweets as @drfigtree.
Fabian Frenzel is a Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Leicester. His research interest concerns the intersections of mobility, politics and organisation. His recent work focused on how urban poverty and informal housing in the global south become tourist attractions. He tweets as @fabnomad.
Patrick McCurdy (PhD, LSE) is an Associate Professor in the Department Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada. His research draws from media and communication, journalism as well as social movement studies to study media as a site and source of social struggle and contestation. Most recently, Patrick has been studying the evolution of campaigning around the Canadian oil/tar sands. He tweets as @pmmcc.
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Title: Protest Camps in International Context : ...
Publisher: Policy Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New