Event overview
Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.
In 2011 tents took over the streets from Cairo to London, bringing 'protest camps' into popular conversation. Heightened by the speed of online networks, city occupations became a global media and protest phenomenon. Yet their fleeting nature left little time for analysis.
This workshop investigates protest camps, and the new worlds they encourage through bringing people together toward common goals. Working with the Protest Camps Research Collective, participants will learn about protest camps through fun, hands-on tasks:
- exploring
- mapping out
- enacting the organisational infrastructures of a camp, from sanitation planning to decision-making structures.
Through this process, workshop participants will identify and play with the operational challenges faced in building protest communities. Bringing together ideas and practices the workshop will interweave a history of tactics drawn from the past three decades of protest camping with questions of creativity and experimentation to consider innovative forms of democratic participation.
Anja Kanngieser is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2013 | 10:00am - 1:00pm |
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