Occupy! A Global Movement
This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of occupations flooding across cities in America, Europe and Australia, to the harsh reality of evictions as corporations and governments attempted to reassert exclusive control over public space. Across a vast range of international examples, over twenty authors analyse, explain and help us understand the movements. These movements were a novel and noisy intervention into the recent capitalist crisis in developed economies, developing an exceptionally broad identity through a call to arms addressed to the 99%, and emphasizing the importance of public space in the creation and maintenance of opposition. The novelties of these movements, along with their radical positioning and the urgency of their claims all demand analysis. This book investigates the crucial questions of how and why this form of action spread so rapidly and so widely, how the inclusive discourse of the 99% matched up to the reality of the practice. It is vital to understand not just the choice of tactics and the vitality of protest camps in public spaces, but also how the myriad of challenges and problems were negotiated.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.
Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan and Brian Doherty were the editors of the journal Social Movement Studies during the height of the Occupy! protests. An international and cross-disciplinary collective, they were uniquely placed to collate and edit this volume.
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The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Why Does Occupy Matter?
Jenny Pickerill & John Krinsky
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 279287
Chapter 2
Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy
Jackie Smith & Bob Glidden
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 288294
Chapter 3
How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles
Justus Uitermark & Walter Nicholls
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 295301
Chapter 4
Tahrir, Here? The Influence of the Arab Uprisings on the Emergence of Occupy
Sarah Kerton
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 302308
Chapter 5
The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street
Ernesto Castaeda
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 309319
Chapter 6
Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance
Jacobo Abelln, Jorge Sequera & Michael Janoschka
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 320326
Chapter 7
Already Occupied: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism and the Occupy
Movements in North America
Adam J. Barker
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 327334
Chapter 8
Whose Occupation? Homelessness and the Politics of Park Encampments
Rebecca Schein
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 335341
Chapter 9
Collecting Occupy London: Public Collecting Institutions and Social Protest Movements in the 21st Century
Jim Gledhill
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 342348
Chapter 10
Israels Tent Protests: The Chilling Effect of Nationalism
Uri Gordon
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 349355
Chapter 11
The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99%
Curtis Smith, Ernesto Castaeda & Josiah Heyman
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 356366
Chapter 12
Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook
Sarah Gaby & Neal Caren
Social Movement Studies, volume 11, nos. 34 (AugustNovember 2012) pp. 367374
Chapter 13
Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Social Movement Studies
