Occupy! A Global Movement PDF
281 Pages·2015·3.609 MB·English
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This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements:from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of occupations floodingacross cities in America, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality ofevictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusivecontrol over public space. Across a vast range of international examples,over twenty authors analyse, explain and help us understand themovements. These movements were a novel and noisy intervention into therecent capitalist crisis in developed economies, developing an exceptionallybroad identity through a call to arms addressed to ‘the 99%’, andemphasizing the importance of public space in the creation andmaintenance of opposition. The novelties of these movements, along withtheir radical positioning and the urgency of their claims all demandanalysis. This book investigates the crucial questions of how and why thisform of action spread so rapidly and so widely, how the inclusive discourseof ‘the 99%’ matched up to the reality of the practice. It is vital tounderstand not just the choice of tactics and the vitality of protest camps inpublic spaces, but also how the myriad of challenges and problems werenegotiated.This book was originally published as a special issue of Social MovementStudies.
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