Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance

ISBN 10: 1447329422 / ISBN 13: 9781447329428

Editore: Policy Press, 2018

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Codice articolo 26378728921

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• Titolo: Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance
• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1447329422
• ISBN 13: 9781447329428
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sugli autori

Gavin Brown is associate professor of human geography at the University of Leicester. Anna Feigenbaum is a senior lecturer in digital storytelling at Bournemouth University. She is coauthor of Protest Camps and the author of Tear Gas. Fabian Frenzel is a lecturer in organization studies at the University of Leicester. Patrick McCurdy is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.

Dr Gavin Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. He is a social and cultural geographer with an interest in individual and collective identities in relation to processes of social change. The main focus of his current work is a Leverhulme Trust funded project recording the historical geographies of British anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. This project examines the transformative power of standing in solidarity with distant others. He has an international reputation for his work on the geographies of sexuality and his recent work has theorized the sexual politics of austerity.