The City Cannot Be Occupied: Urban Movements and Revolutionary Memory in Paris, Prague, and Tehran
Journal: Figshare
Year: 2013

This dissertation concerns the role of urban spaces and political memories in revolutionary mobilization. The theoretical framework suggests that movements will use central urban spaces like streets and plazas to connect the contemporary movement with the memory of past political events. Memories of previous revolutionary movements, police violence, and martyrdom, help activate an urban population. Primary urban mobilization on the street, and the use of memory, has the potential to activate ‘se