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The Occupy Movement Explained: The Nature of His Game: Ideas Explained

Autor Nicholas Smaligo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2014
A readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, The Occupy Movement Explained is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. Debunking a number of prominent myths and misunderstandings, Nicholas Smaligo shows how the movement arose out of radical currents that have been active below the media's radar since the 1970s. Occupiers are not all the same, and the author reviews some of the debates and changes within the movement. The occupations began under a slogan that conjured up a naive sense of unity — "We Are the 99%!" It did not take very long for that sense of unity to give way to an appreciation of just how socially, economically, and ideologically fragmented American society is. For some, this was an excuse to return to their cynicism; for others, it was an invitation to lose their illusions and begin to see the world from the viewpoint of political activists. The Occupy Movement Explained describes this process of education and the lessons learned about "the 99%," the police, direct democracy, political demands, and the intimately related questions of social change, violence, and property.
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ISBN-13: 9780812698558
ISBN-10: 081269855X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 150 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Open Court
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: What Happened to Occupy?
1. The Occupy Movement or The Movement of Occupations? The Problem of Direct Action in a Brand-driven World
2. "It Just Came Out of Nowhere": Occupy's Family Tree
3. White Kids and Homeless Folks: Who Participated in Occupy and Why?
4. "Are. We. The 99%!?" Police, Class, and Power
5. What Is Our One Demand?
6. Encampments and Their Discontents: Biopower, Drum-circles, and the Microcosm-effect
7. Is Occupy Anti-Capitalist? Reformism, Revolutionism, and the Implicit Assumptions of the Occupations
8. The Question of Violence: Chris Hedges versus the Black Bloc
Conclusion: Long Live the Tactic of Occupation!
Appendix: Primary Documents
Index

Notă biografică

Nicholas Smaligo teaches philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, has been involved in several Occupy events, and has spent hundreds of hours discussing the meaning of the Occupy Movement with Occupy activists from all over the country. He lives in Carbondale, IL.