Social reproduction in European Environmental Protest Camp Movements: Ende Gelände and Reclaim the Power

最近的联合国报告警告说，限制严重气候变化的时间只剩下12年了（IPCC, 2018）。我们如何组织起来应对成为一个相关的问题，特别是与基层政治组织有关。本提案旨在分析德国和英国两个最著名的社会运动组织是如何得到支持和维持的，以了解当代基层政治应对气候危机的动态、潜力和局限性。它将汇集来自社会运动研究和女权主义政治理论的论点，以便有助于理解组织如何使用替代制度，事件和文化实践来实现其政治活动的社会再生产。它特别审查了抗议营地的作用，这些临时占领越来越多地被运动用作政治活动的基地，并用于试验和展示其他社会模式。研究questions1。女性主义理论如何帮助我们更好地理解社会运动、日常再生产及其成功？在这些抗议营地运动中，运动机构、实际项目和基础设施发挥了什么作用？在理解当代直接行动中，抗议营地的政治意义是什么？实证研究方法本项目采用一套定性研究方法来探讨上述案例研究的社会再生产、社会关系和基础设施资源。对于这些方法论组成部分中的每一个，我在运动中的地位都将是重要的：作为一名已经参与英国气候运动一段时间的研究人员，发现关键问题、紧张局势和情绪对我来说要小得多（Denscombe, 2017，第83页）。首先，将根据位于抗议营地并参与两个运动活动的几个时期的研究，使用两个运动的民族志参与性观察。民族志参与性观察将“捕捉到事件的主观情绪、感觉和基调”，为那些可能被解读为枯燥、遥远和脱离的分析性叙述提供描述性的血肉。（Juris and Khasnabish, 2013, p.3）。我将重点关注活动家作为知识生产者的角色，鼓励他们绘制营地的各个方面，包括他们的运动历史、营地的形成和他们关注的目标，研究的这一部分为解决RQ1提供了大量数据，也为RQ2和RQ3提供了数据。其次，将与来自每个小组的10-15名活动人士进行半结构化访谈，以深入了解所使用的各种经验和组织技术，特别是帮助解决RQ2。访谈将侧重于营员对营地的解释以及他们对营地内社会互动的描述（Blaikie, 2010, p.207）。他们的选择将基于他们组织抗议营地的经验水平。最后，将分析来自难民营的文件数据，包括难民营的“外部”沟通和宣传以及难民营内使用的“内部”指南和讨论文件。批判性话语分析将话语实践、事件和文本与更广泛的社会和文化系统联系起来（Fairclough in Locke, 2004, p.1）。这些文本将有助于揭示辩论、基础设施实践、惯例和组织者的理解，以及他们对世界的地缘政治想象、他们融入世界的位置以及他们希望世界如何改变的理解。

The most recent UN report has warned that there are only twelve years left to limit severe climate change (IPCC, 2018). How we organise in response becomes a pertinent question particularly in relation to grassroots political organising. This proposal aims to analyse how two of the most prominent social movement organisations in Germany and the UK are supported and sustained in order to understand the dynamics, potential and limitations of the contemporary grassroots political responses to the climate crisis. It will bring together arguments from social movement studies and feminist political theory in order to contribute to understandings of how organisations use alternative institutions, events and cultural practices for the social reproduction of their political activity. In particular, it examines the role of protest camps, temporary occupations that are used increasingly by movements as bases for political activity and for experimenting with and demonstrating alternative models of society. Research questions1. How can feminist theory inform better understanding of social movements everyday reproduction, and their success?2. What role do movement institutions, practical projects & infrastructure play within these protest camp movements?3. What is the political significance of protest camps in understanding contemporary direct action?Empirical Research MethodsThe project uses a set of qualitative research methods to explore the social reproduction, social relations and infrastructural resourcing of the case studies described above. For each of these methodological components my position in the movements will be significant: as a researcher who has been a part of the British climate movement for some time, it will be far less challenging for me to uncover key issues, tensions and emotions (Denscombe, 2017, p.83).Firstly, ethnographic participant observation of both movements will be used, based on several periods of study situated in the protest camps and participating in the activity of both movements. Ethnographic participant observation will 'capture the subjective mood, feeling, and tone' of events'contributing descriptive flesh to what might otherwise read as dry, distant, and disengaged analytic accounts.' (Juris and Khasnabish, 2013, p.3). I will focus on the role of the activists as knowledge producers encouraging them to map various aspects of the camps including their movement histories, the formation of the camps and the targets they have focussed on, with this component of the research providing much of the data for addressing RQ1 but also feeding into RQ2 and RQ3. Second, semi-structured interviews will be made with 10-15 activists from each group to provide insight into the various experiences and organisational techniques used, in particular helping address RQ2. Interviews will focus on the campers' interpretation of the camps and their accounts of the social interaction within them (Blaikie, 2010, p.207). They will be chosen based on their level of experience in organising the protest camps. Finally, documentary data from the camps will be analysed including 'external' communication and publicity put out by the camps and 'internal' guides and discussion documents used within the camps. Critical discourse analysis will relate discursive practices, events and texts to wider social and cultural systems (Fairclough in Locke, 2004, p.1). These texts will help uncover the debates, infrastructural practices, repertoires and understandings of the organisers of their geopolitical imaginations of how the world is, where they fit into it and how they would like it to change.