Category Archives: protest camps

Protest Camps at the AAG 2013

Posted on May 5, 2013 by protestcamp

Several members of the protest camps research collective converged in L.A. this April for the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). It was an opportunity not only to present and discuss our research in the conference itself, … Continue reading →

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Protest Camps Research Network to Present at AAG

Posted on March 18, 2013 by protestcamp

AAG 2013: UPRISING GEOGRAPHIES DOUBLE SESSION Protest Camp Research Network member Adam Ramadan along with colleague Sara Fregonese are running a double session at the Association of American Geographers Conference on ‘Uprising Geographies’ in Los Angeles on April 11, 2013 in the San Bernardino room of … Continue reading →

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Hope at the Heart of Praxis: A Round-up of the Creating Worlds Workshop

Posted on January 19, 2013 by protestcamp

On Monday January 14, 2013 members of the Protest Camp Research Collective gathered together for the Creating Worlds Workshop with others interested in place-based resistance and the making of alternative worlds. We asked activist-researcher Sam Halvorsen to reflect on the … Continue reading →

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Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD – Europe’s largest Postcapitalist land occupation.

Posted on December 3, 2012 by protestcamp

From beyond the silences of international mainstream media that have offered hardly a whisper on ‘Europe’s largest postcapitalist land occupation,’ LabofII recently brought out this report of protest camp life and action at La ZAD.

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Celebrations and Conflicts: Protest Camps and their vulnerabilities

Posted on October 25, 2012 by protestcamp

In this guest blog, Maxine Newlands situates the recent arson attack against Camp Florentine into a broader history of protest camps as vulnerable spaces, from Greenham to ZAD.  Protest camps remain one of the strongest forms of activism in the … Continue reading →

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Protest Camps and White Cubes

Posted on September 28, 2012 by protestcamp

How might activist-art be supported rather than undermined by the visibility and space offered by contemporary cultural institutions? Reporting on the Truth is Concrete festival in Graz, Austria, guest blogger Gavin Grindon looks at recent trends that bring protest camp … Continue reading →

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Two New Special Issues out on Occupations and Encampments

Posted on August 20, 2012 by drfigtree

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 these great collections and recommends them to all those reflecting on these … Continue reading →

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Occupy Research Collective Convergence – 30 June 2012

Posted on July 13, 2012 by protestcamp

On Saturday 30 June 2012 The Occupy Research Collective held its first convergence meeting  at UCL. The collective emerged out of series of reading groups on topics relevant to the movement. Participants decided to take their discussions a step further by … Continue reading →

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Protest Camp Workshop Roundup

Posted on July 9, 2012 by protestcamp

On the 26th June 2012 40 researchers and activists gathered at Leicester University for a one-day workshop on protest camp. It was jointly organised by the protest camp collective, the department of geography and the School of Management at the … Continue reading →

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Blockupy Frankfurt wins as police blocks bankers, government blocks democracy

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Fabian Frenzel

There has been quite some debate over whether the Occupy movement, despite being famously open and unspecific about its political aims, is fundamentally based on an anti-capitalist agenda. Some have argued against this assumption, claiming Occupy was critical of capitalism … Continue reading →

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