Taking the Square: Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space

254 Pages·2016·3.292 MB·English

by  Maria Rovisco, Jonathan Corpus Ong

Taking the Square
Radical Subjects in International Politics
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RoviscoandJonathanCorpusOng(2016)
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Taking the Square
Mediated Dissent and Occupations
of Public Space
Edited by Maria Rovisco and
Jonathan Corpus Ong
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
MariaRoviscoandJonathanCorpusOng
I:StreetPolitics,OccupationsandDissent 13
1 Identity,PlaceandPolitics:FromPicketLinesto
Occupation 15
PollyannaRuiz
2 OccupyingtheDigital-Popular 37
PaoloGerbaudo
3 Place,ProtestandCommunciation:ProtestCampsandthe
MediatisationofSpace 55
FabianFrenzel,PatrickMcCurdyandAnnaFeigenbaum
II:DemocraticStruggles,NewPublicsandMediatedProtest 75
4 ProtestasInterruptionoftheDisasterImaginary:
OvercomingVoice-DenyingRationalitiesinPost-Haiyan
Philippines 77
NicoleCurato,JonathanCorpusOngandLiezelLongboan
5 ‘WeLiveinPublic’:TwitterandSelf-MediatedHyper-
VisibilityintheOccupyWallStreetMovement 97
JoelPenney
6 TheRelationshipbetweenOnlineandOfflineParticipation
inaSocialMovement:GeziParkProtestsintheDiaspora 117
ChristineOgan,RoyaImaniGiglouandLeend’Haenens
7 MediatingMovementinOccupiedSpaces:Documentation
inSocialMediaduringtheUmbrellaMovement 139
LisaY.M.Leung
III:ThePerformanceofProtest 157
8 PerformativeRevolutioninEgypt:AnEssayinCultural
Power 159
JeffreyC.Alexander
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9 HybridityinStreetPerformanceofZuluandMardiGras
IndiansinNewOrleans 185
DianeGrams
10 MinorityGroupsandStrategiesofDisplayandDissentin
Physical,VirtualandHybridSpaces 207
CheryllRuthR.SorianoandRuepertJielCao
Index 229
Contributors 241
Acknowledgements
Firstofall,thisbookwouldnothavebeenpossiblewithouttheinspiring
and insightful work of all the chapter contributors. We are very privi-
legedwehavegotten toknow thembetterinpreparingthismanuscript.
Second, we would like to thank our colleagues in the Department of
Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for being a
challenging and invigorating intellectual home. In particular, Peter
Lunt’sencouragementandsupportforthisprojecthavebeeninvaluable;
without him this collaboration—and friendship!—would not have hap-
pened so quickly. Our project has also been supported by Sandra Kaul-
fuss,aPhDinourdepartment.Finally,wewouldliketothankthegreat
team at Rowman & Littlefield International, namely Anna Reeve for her
enthusiasm and patience as our commissioning editor and Sinead Mur-
phy,oureditorialassistant.
MariaRoviscoandJonathanOng
Leicester,14December2015
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