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The role of spatial organization in Resurrection City and other protest camps

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posted on 2020-05-29, 09:30 authored by Fabian Frenzel
Social and political organizing and organization has a spatial dimension, and there is increasing interest in academic studies of organization to understand better how space and organization relate, interact, and conflict. There is a range of studies that look at business and workplace organization, but little evidence from social movement organization or what is sometimes referred to as alternative organization studies. This article addresses this gap by observing and analyzing the effects of spatial organization in social movements. It focuses particularly on protest camps, a form of social movement organization in which spatial organization is particularly important. It looks at the Resurrection City protest camp of 1968 to identify the development of spatial organization practices. They are carried onwards across social movements, as they resolve organizational desires for the social movement organization, such as enabling mass organization without resorting to formal membership or hierarchical structures. In summary, the article provides insight into the relationship between spatial and social organization.

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Frenzel, F. (2020). The Role of Spatial Organization in Resurrection City and Other Protest Camps, Contention, 8(1), 28-48.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Contention The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest

Volume

8

Issue

1

Pagination

28 - 48

Publisher

Berghahn Books

issn

2572-7184

eissn

2330-1392

Acceptance date

2020-01-08

Copyright date

2020

Language

en

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https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/contention/8/1/cont080104.xml

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