This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements:
from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of occupations flooding
across cities in America, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of
evictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusive
control over public space. Across a vast range of international examples,
over twenty authors analyse, explain and help us understand the
movements. These movements were a novel and noisy intervention into the
recent capitalist crisis in developed economies, developing an exceptionally
broad identity through a call to arms addressed to ‘the 99%’, and
emphasizing the importance of public space in the creation and
maintenance of opposition. The novelties of these movements, along with
their radical positioning and the urgency of their claims all demand
analysis. This book investigates the crucial questions of how and why this
form of action spread so rapidly and so widely, how the inclusive discourse
of ‘the 99%’ matched up to the reality of the practice. It is vital to
understand not just the choice of tactics and the vitality of protest camps in
public spaces, but also how the myriad of challenges and problems were
negotiated.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement
Studies.
Author(s): Jenny Pickerill; John Krinsky; Graeme Hayes; Kevin Gillan; Brian Doherty
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 280
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Contents
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1. Why Does Occupy Matter?
2. Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy
3. How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles
4. Tahrir, Here? The Influence of the Arab Uprisings on the Emergence of Occupy
5. The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street
6. Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance
7. Already Occupied: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism and the Occupy Movements in North America
8. Whose Occupation? Homelessness and the Politics of Park Encampments
9. Collecting Occupy London: Public Collecting Institutions and Social Protest Movements in the 21st Century
10. Israel’s ‘Tent Protests’: The Chilling Effect of Nationalism
11. The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%
12. Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook
13. Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement
14. The Free Culture and 15M Movements in Spain: Composition, Social Networks and Synergies
15. Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement
16. ‘Occupy Israel’: A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure
17. The Students’ Rebellion in Chile: Occupy Protest or Classic Social Movement?
18. ‘Why don’t Italians Occupy?’ Hypotheses on a Failed Mobilisation
19. Beyond the Network? Occupy London and the Global Movement
20. Negotiating Power and Difference within the 99%
21. Occupy—The End of the Affair
22. Walking in the City of London
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