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Book Review: Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance by Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel and Patrick McCurdy

This edited collection provides an exceptional summary of camping as a protest strategy focused around the 2011 protest camp wave – Occupy, Indignados, Gezi Park. It picks up protest camping as ‘key expression of contemporary social movement politics’ (p.1). Doing so, the 17 distinct empirical cases in 15 different countries and broad theoretical perspectives establish the study of protest camps as an interdisciplinary research area. These cases include protest camps departing from classical examples as Occupy Wall Street such as the Calais migrant camp and a squatted house in Sao Paolo. Through this mix of cases the editors fundamentally question what we understand as a protest camp. The theoretical structure of the book makes differences and commonalities of protest camps discussable by dividing the book into three parts: assembling and materialising, occupying and colonising, reproducing and re-creating. It takes the reader through the processes of assembling tents, taking space and maintaining this as a social structure. Despite the expected differences between the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and the Israeli Tent Protest, the editors succeeded in making the book a coherent read, establishing a discussion on how people assemble at a specific space with their tents, umbrellas, barricades and food. Within this, each chapter gives insight into the experiences of people camping together with the busy, complex and careful consideration this entails.