Protest camps carried two irreconcilable meanings for their participants

Evidence

Within this wave of First World occupiers, there was a fundamental split over the meaning of the protest camps. For anarchists, they were self-governed communities operating autonomously from society, a seed that could grow into a world of its own; for others, they were a temporary rallying point, a stage from which to blast out their claims. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 265

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the prefigurative-versus-instrumental split that defined Occupy-style encampments.
• XREF: connects to: Mass protests collapse open plurality into one narrow imposed meaning at the end — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 518; Transnational protest camps fragment by ideological affinity into separate villages — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1119