This chapter documents the significance of the 2024 student encampment protests in Britain. These protests arose in the aftermath of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and were part of a broader revolutionary movement across hundreds of international university campuses in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Anchoring the chapter is a rumination on the metaphor of encampment fever to understand the embodied and pluriversal force of the student uprisings. Underpinning this conceptualization are the works of Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that help to illuminate how encampments manifested a collective form of witnessing that draws on Black feminists’ praxis of care and world-making. The chapter demonstrates how encampments became a significant counter-practice to racial and colonial norms in Britain through acts of reciprocity and care for the flesh-and-blood of Palestinians. By highlighting the racialized gendered dimensions of radical university politics, the chapter outlines how encampment fever was a collective strategy for consciousness-raising in the West, as well as an embodied method for making new ways of inhabiting the university possible.

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Encampment Fever! Witnessing the Revolutionary Power of the Gaza Solidarity Student Encampments in Britain Through a Racialized Gendered Lens

  • Sadhvi Dar

摘要

This chapter documents the significance of the 2024 student encampment protests in Britain. These protests arose in the aftermath of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and were part of a broader revolutionary movement across hundreds of international university campuses in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Anchoring the chapter is a rumination on the metaphor of encampment fever to understand the embodied and pluriversal force of the student uprisings. Underpinning this conceptualization are the works of Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick that help to illuminate how encampments manifested a collective form of witnessing that draws on Black feminists’ praxis of care and world-making. The chapter demonstrates how encampments became a significant counter-practice to racial and colonial norms in Britain through acts of reciprocity and care for the flesh-and-blood of Palestinians. By highlighting the racialized gendered dimensions of radical university politics, the chapter outlines how encampment fever was a collective strategy for consciousness-raising in the West, as well as an embodied method for making new ways of inhabiting the university possible.