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Evicting the Public
Why has occupying public spaces brought such heavy-handed repression? Across America police have been called to clear protestors from parks and university campuses. Ostensibly progressive cities like...
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The Global Street Comes to Wall Street
Street struggles and demonstrations are part of our global modernity.1 The uprisings in the Arab world, the daily neighborhood protests in China’s major cities, Latin America’s piqueteros and poor...
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Fear of a Slacker Revolution
Occupy Wall Street and the cultural politics of the class struggle You can learn a lot about a movement by listening to its opponents. Everywhere, evidence is accumulating that at the level of formal...
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Horizontalism and Territory
Horizontal social relationships and the creation of new territory, through the use of geographic space, are the most generalized and innovative of the experiences of the Occupy movement. What we have...
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Living Politically
Less than ten years ago, a day of international protests swept across the globe, involving millions of human beings for nearly a full 24 hours. It was a global protest against the United States...
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The first issue of the Journal for Occupied Studies is out. From the journal’s credo: The Journal for Occupied Studies is an independent contribution to the global Occupy movement, one which springs...
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Occupy Ethnography: Reflections on Studying the Movement
Winter has seen Occupy Wall Street shift gears. Meetings have moved indoors, and the movement is now more a network of decentralized groups working on symbiotic projects and campaigns. Winter has also...
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American Ethnologist on Occupy
The May 2012 issue of American Ethnologist has three open-access articles focused on the Occupy movement. In “The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming,”...
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