ARTSSCI 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Bakken Pipeline, Occupy London, Settler Colonialism
9 Feb 2017
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1 increasingly common tactic: protest camps: 2011 movements of the squares , hong kong umbrella movement, dakota access pipeline camp, etc. Emotion and affect seen as fundamental to motivating and sustaining struggle. Camps as convergence spaces that facilitate effective encounters. Embedding of emotions in place: eg. Protest camps develop infrastructures and practices that are shaped by place, temporality, and material architectures and objects (mccurdy et al. , 2016, p. 101) Initial encampment at zuccotti park (inspired by tahrir, 15-m), followed by other camps around the world. Attempt to establish alternative spaces and practices (which were, in turn, influenced by space) A powerful term, which makes clear space had been taken over/owned by private interests (pickerill & krinsky, 2012) But ignore that much of the land in question is already occupied (montano, 2011) (re)occupation contributes to naturalizing settler colonialism (barker, 2012) Tensions between those interested in taking space and those involved in supporting the day-to-day camp needs: halvorsen (2015) on occupy london.
