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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Micah White, one of the organizers of the 2011-2012 Occupy Movement, and its associated protests, emerged from Occupy so disillusioned that he published a book titled The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. In it, White argues that activists tend to overestimate the effects of protest in the short term and underestimate them in...
Beyond the Age of Destruction – Remembering an Alternative Future at an Anti-nuclear Protest Camp (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Capitalism’s Cracks" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical archaeology in Europe has focused on dark heritage and sites of trauma. While important, this work on the ‘time to destroy’ may inadvertently silence sites and events opposed to this daily destruction and alienation. A case study of an anti-nuclear protest camp in 1980s Germany will show that cracks in capitalism form...
In Response to Police Brutality, a Museum Exhibit as a Community Resource (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Oakland Museum of California’s “Power to the People'' exhibit celebrates the Black Panther Party (BPP) and its influence on contemporary social movements, such as Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC) and Autopsy Initiative, which pays for autopsies in suspected cases of police brutality. This form of mass murder of African...