| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Introduction: feminism/protest camps / Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett -- Safe spaces and solidarity: confronting gendered violence in the US occupy encampments / Celeste Montoya -- The pu'u we planted: (re)birthing refuge at Mauna Kea / Māhealani Ahia and Kahala Johnson -- 'You can't kill the spirit' (but you can try): gendered contestations and contradictions at Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp / Finn Mackay -- Women activists, gendered power and postfeminism in Taiwan's 'Sunflower Movement' / Chia-Ling Yang -- The feminist movement in Turkey and the women of the Gezi Park protests / Yeșim Arat -- Feminism and protest camps in Spain: from the Indignados to feminist encampments / Emma Gómez Nicolau -- 'Why the compost toilets?': ecofeminist (re)generations at the HoriZone Ecovillage / Joan Haran -- Protest camps as 'homeplace'? Social reproduction in and against neoliberal capitalism / Catherine Eschle -- Project democracy in protest camps : caring, the commons, and feminist democracy theory / Anastasia Kavada -- Feminised and decolonising reoccupations, re-existencias and escrevivências: learning from women's movement collectives in Northeast Brazil / Sara C. Motta, Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho, Claudiana Nogueira de Alencar and Mila Nayane da Silva -- Feminism on aboriginal land: the 1983 Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp, Central Australia / Alison Bartlett -- Remembering an eco/feminist peace camp / Niamh Moore -- US occupy encampments and their feminist tensions: archiving for contemporary 'big-tent' social movements / Heather McKee Hurwitz and Anne Kumer -- Greenham women everywhere: a feminish experiment in recreating experience and shaping collective memory / Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan, Vanessa Pini and Jill (Ray) Raymond, with Alison Bartlett and Catherine Eschle -- Conclusion: rethinking protest camps, rethinking feminism / Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett |
| Summary |
In the wake of a global wave of mobilisation, this book offers an unprecedented interrogation of protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Using international case studies, it develops an intersectional analysis of protest camps and tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- Political aspects -- Case studies
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Protest camps -- Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Movimientos sociales
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Feminismo -- Aspectos políticos
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Social movements
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Feminism -- Political aspects
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Feminism -- Political aspects
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Protest camps
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Libros electrónicos
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Informational works.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781529220193 |
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152922019X |
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9781529220186 |
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1529220181 |
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