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Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation
This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more recent #Occupy movements—one that involves the assembling of masses of individuals from diverse backgrounds within physical spaces. However, the recent shift toward more decentralized forms of organizing and networking may help to ensure the sustainability of the #Occupy movements in a posteviction phase.
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Bastards of Utopia
Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or \"globalization from below.\" Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching-an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth. More information on the film can be found at www.der.org/films/bastards-of-utopia.html.
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Evicted: A Retrospective Look at the Recent Outbreak of Occupy Initiatives in Puerto Rico
In turn, the writing process has been of deep analysis, autoaprendizaje (self-learning) and conciliatory.1 AN INSIDER'S LOOK For over a decade professionals and scholars (i.e., lawyers, planners, journalists, sociologists, etc.) have turned to me to learn about the Puertorrican occupy movement and the (mis)management of abandoned properties in Puerto Rico. 2017) and convincing Latin American nations of the bounties of liberal capitalism, the US developed a quality public education system. By prescribing further dismantling of the school system and severe budget cuts to higher education, it continues to reverse the social, economic, and cultural role that the public education system once played (Torres, et al.. Growing political, economic, and social vulnerability has increased vulnerability to extreme natural events and contributed to the emptying (Negron, 2018) of an archipelago already plagued by abandoned properties.
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The Occupy Movement in Žižek's hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a \"dream.\" In no small part responding to a perceived crisis of representative politics, however, the popular movements that swept through northern Africa, Europe, and North America during 2011 have been distinguished by their adoption of direct democratic forms. This initial ethnography—collaboratively researched and written by a Slovene activist-theorist and a U.S. anthropologist—considers the significance of the Occupy Movement's democratic practices in Žižek's own hometown. We trace the development of decidedly minoritarian forms of decision making—the \"democracy of direct action,\" as it is known locally—to activists' experiences of organizing for migrant and minority rights in the face of ethnonationalism. We compare the democracy of direct action to Occupy Wall Street's consensus-based model. In conclusion, we ask how ethnographic attention to the varieties of emergent political forms within the current global cycle of protest might extend recent theorizing of radical politics and contribute to broader efforts to reimagine democracy.
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The trouble is the banks : letters to Wall Street
\"Collects 150 letters that Americans (and one Canadian) wrote directly to executives and directors of five big banks in fall 2011, at a time when protests were emerging in Occupy Wall Street camps across the United States\"--P. [4] of cover.
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