"Encampments make a claim to land; and they contest the authorities’ control in a way that isn’t true of marching. [...] They should resemble, to borrow an image from Robert Lowell, fishbones in an institution’s throat."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/on-the-educational-case-for-encampments

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Jan-Werner Müller | On the Educational Case for Encampments

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments....

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