Cover -- About the authors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The multiple origins of organised camping -- 0.1 Global protest camps prior to 2011 -- What makes a 'protest camp'? -- The link between protest camps and (new) social movements -- Concept soup -- 0.2 The concept soup -- Infrastructural analysis and book structure -- 0.3 The infrastructures of protest camps -- An historical review of selected protest camps -- 0.4 Welcome tents like this one at Occupy Bristol form a central feature of many protest camps -- 0.5 Tents in the evening sun at HoriZone protest camp, Stirling, July 2005 -- 0.6 The library of Occupy LSX -- 1 Infrastructures and practices of protest camping -- Introduction -- Protest camps and crafting a homeplace -- Infrastructures -- 1.1 A noticeboard at Heiligendamm anti-G8 camp in Germany, 2007 -- 1.2 The Oaxaca encampments in 2006 filled the city's streets -- 1.3 The spokescouncil model -- 1.4 Compost toilets are part of the holistic, permaculture-inspired, ecological outlook of protest camps -- Exposing the law -- 1.5 Laws and legal battles can form part of the struggle to create camps -- 'Travelling' infrastructures -- 1.6 Infrastructures travel, with tripods being used at different UK Climate Camps, including here at Kingsnorth in 2008 -- 1.7 Note of solidarity at Occupy LSX -- Conclusion -- 2 Media and communication infrastructures -- Introduction -- Adaptations -- 2.1 Entrance to the HoriZoneprotest camp, Stirling, July 2005 -- 2.2 A media tent is part of many protest camps -- Alternatives -- 2.3 Mainshill Solidarity Camp zine teaches readers how to build a bender -- Print-based media -- 2.4 True Unity News was published in the Resurrection City camp -- 2.5 Greenham Common's communication infrastructures included on-site media-making and off-site offices.

2.6 The debut issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, October 2011 -- 2.7 The Tahrir Square media tent -- Conclusion -- 3 Protest action infrastructures -- Introduction -- 3.1 Protest camping as direct action -- Protest camps as places of protest action -- The question of violence -- Diversity of tactics -- Protest action ecology -- 3.2 Climate Camp in the City at the G20 meeting in London, 2009 -- Protest action ecosystems -- 3.3 Police violence often reveals the race, class and gender oppressions that operate in protest camps -- 3.4 Kate Evans' abseiling handbook -- Conclusion -- 4 Governance infrastructures -- Introduction -- 4.1 The hand signals of consensus decision-making popularised by Occupy -- Organic horizontality and partial organisation -- The organised camp and organic horizontality -- Resurrection City and anarchitecture -- Anti-nuclear occupations -- The development of formalised consensus decision-making -- Horizontality without formal horizontal decision-making -- 4.2 The first Climate Camp in summer 2006 in Yorkshire -- 4.3 A map illustrating decentralisation -- Spaces of experimentation -- Conclusion -- 5 Re-creation infrastructures -- Introduction -- 5.1 Education is a central area of social reproduction pursued in protest camps -- Nomadology -- Theories of exceptionality -- 5.2 The occupation of Alcatraz marked the island as Indian land -- 5.3 A large installation of a plane invites people entering the 2007 Climate Camp at Heathrow to 'exit the system' -- 5.4 A playful take on secession at Occupy LSX, 2011 -- 5.5 Climate Camp at Heathrow, 2007 -- 5.6 The cycle-powered Rinky Dink sound system at the Climate Camp at Heathrow, 2007 -- 5.7 The protest camps against aluminium smelters inIceland, 2005-07 -- Social reproduction -- 5.8 Re-creating life in sustainable ways - renewable energy in protest camps.

5.9 Climate Camp in the City in Bishopsgate, London, 2009 -- 5.10 Struggles for de-colonisation and anti-racism were prominent in many Occupy camps -- Conclusion -- 6 Alternative worlds -- Introduction -- Alternative worlds -- Protest camps and the commons -- To win and to fail -- Protest camps research -- References -- Index -- About Zed Books.