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Public event: Creating worlds together: a workshop on experimentations and protest camps

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Gavin Brown

We are involved in organizing a public workshop about protest camps as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science.  The workshop will be held on Saturday 2 November 2013 (10.00 – 13.00) at Birkbeck College in central London.  The workshop … Continue reading →

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“Did you really think I wouldn’t write on your walls?”

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Gavin Brown

One of the pleasures of writing this blog is the opportunity it provides to record the stories of small incidents from the history of City Group’s anti-apartheid activism that might not end up being used in our other work.  This … Continue reading →

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Norma Kitson and creative innovations in British protest

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Since writing last week’s blog piece about Norma Kitson and the accusations that she was “a difficult woman”, we have interviewed a number of other former Non-Stop Picketers.  One interview, in particular, offered a different perspective on Norma’s contribution to … Continue reading →

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Report on “(Re)thinking Protest Camps” workshop

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Gavin Brown

Originally posted on Protest Camps:
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…

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