Feminism and Protest Camps

Catherine Eschle is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde.Alison Bartlett is Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia.

"The first of its kind, this global collection brings together feminism and protest camps, looking at activist histories to help us reflect on today’s urgent questions—from aboriginal rights to climate change. Featuring both prominent feminist scholars and new researchers from around the world, the chapters examine creativity, care and what it means to organise, act and live collectively. This book is both a pleasure to read and a truly innovative and interdisciplinary text. Using methods ranging from interviews to ethnography, Feminism and Protest Camps reminds us of the importance of looking both at what is documented and what gets left out of the archives. In drawing together stories so often left untold, it brings powerful voices and practices of resistance into the canon of social movement history. Feminism and Protest Camps will be essential reading for feminists, social movement students, scholars and activists alike." Anna Feigenbaum, Bournemouth University

• 1. Introduction: Feminism/Protest Camps - Catherine Eschle and Alison BartlettPart 1: Gendered Power and Identities in Protest Camps2. Safe Spaces and Solidarity: Confronting Gendered Violence in the US Occupy Encampments - Celeste Montoya3. The Pu’u We Planted: (Re)birthing Refuge at Mauna Kea - Māhealani Ahia and Kahala Johnson4. ‘You Can’t Kill the Spirit’ (But You Can Try): Gendered Contestations and Contradictions at Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp - Finn Mackay5. Women Activists, Gendered Power and Postfeminism in Taiwan’s ‘Sunflower Movement’ - Chia-Ling YangPart 2: Feminist Politics in and through Protest Camps6. The Feminist Movement in Turkey and the Women of the Gezi Park Protests - Yeşim Arat7. Feminism and Protest Camps in Spain: From the Indignados to Feminist Encampments - Emma Gómez Nicolau8. ‘Why the Compost Toilets?’: Ecofeminist (Re)Generations at the HoriZone Ecovillage - Joan HaranPart 3: Feminist Theorising and Protest Camps9. Protest Camps as ‘Homeplace’? Social Reproduction in and against Neoliberal Capitalism - Catherine Eschle10. Project Democracy in Protest Camps: Caring, the Commons and Feminist Democratic Theory - Anastasia Kavada11. 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 Alcencar and Mila Nayane da SilvaPart 4: The Feminist Afterlives of Protest Camps12. Feminism on Aboriginal Land: The 1983 Pine Gap Women’s Peace Camp, Central Australia - Alison Bartlett13. Remembering an Eco/Feminist Peace Camp - Niamh Moore14. US Occupy Encampments and Their Feminist Tensions: Archiving for Contemporary ‘Big-Tent’ Social Movements - Heather McKee Hurwitz and Anne Kumer15. Greenham Women Everywhere: A Feminist Experiment in Recreating Experience and Shaping Collective Memory - Kate Kerrow, Rebecca Mordan, Vanessa Pini and Jill (Ray) Raymond, with Alison Bartlett and Catherine Eschle16. Conclusion: Rethinking Protest Camps, Rethinking Feminism - Catherine Eschle and Alison Bartlett