What comes after occupy?
Subtitle: the regional politics of resistance
By: edited by Todd A. Comer
Series: ADAPT labour studies book-series
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781443875639
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Occupy movement; Case studies; Protest movements
Description: Occupy Wall Street, as centered in New York City, received much publicity. Little attention, however, has been granted to the hundreds of Occupy groups in marginal locations whose creative politics were certainly not limited by the influential example of Occupy in Zuccotti Park. This volume rectifies this oversight, with thirteen essays critically addressing the politics of occupation in places such as Indiana, Oregon, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Montana, and California. It initiates an interdisciplinary and critical discussion concerned with the importance of the local to contemporary politics; the evolution of Occupy Wall Street tactics as they changed to fit differing, non-spectacular contexts; and what worked or did not work politically in various contexts. All of the above is designed to inform and improve that as-of-yet-unnamed movement which will come after Occupy. Boasting scholars from sociology, English, anthropology, peace studies, and history, the volume is divided into three major sections: Occupying the Local: Promise and Predicament; Occupying Space and Borders: South, East, and West; and Occupying the Media: Local, Regional, and National Dilemmas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Occupying the Local: Promise and Predicament; title: II. Occupying Space and Borders: South, East, and West; title: III. Occupying the Media: Local, Regional, and National Dilemmas.