Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine Trost (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520274228
- eISBN:
- 9780520954106
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274228.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
In the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. In the wake of Obama's election, as commentators proclaimed the “death of conservatism,” Tax Day rallies and Tea Party ...
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In the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. In the wake of Obama's election, as commentators proclaimed the “death of conservatism,” Tax Day rallies and Tea Party showdowns at congressional town hall meetings marked a new and unexpected chapter in American conservatism. This book brings together leading scholars and experts on the American Right to examine a political movement that electrified American society. Topics addressed by the chapters include the Tea Party's roots in earlier mass movements of the Right and in distinctive forms of American populism and conservatism; the significance of class, race and gender to the rise and successes of the Tea Party; the effect of the Tea Party on the Republican Party; the relationship between the Tea Party and the Religious Right; and the contradiction between the grass-roots nature of the Tea Party and the established political financing behind it. The book provides detailed and often surprising accounts of the movement's development at local and national levels, and it addresses the relationship between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.Less
In the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. In the wake of Obama's election, as commentators proclaimed the “death of conservatism,” Tax Day rallies and Tea Party showdowns at congressional town hall meetings marked a new and unexpected chapter in American conservatism. This book brings together leading scholars and experts on the American Right to examine a political movement that electrified American society. Topics addressed by the chapters include the Tea Party's roots in earlier mass movements of the Right and in distinctive forms of American populism and conservatism; the significance of class, race and gender to the rise and successes of the Tea Party; the effect of the Tea Party on the Republican Party; the relationship between the Tea Party and the Religious Right; and the contradiction between the grass-roots nature of the Tea Party and the established political financing behind it. The book provides detailed and often surprising accounts of the movement's development at local and national levels, and it addresses the relationship between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Anita Chari
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173896
- eISBN:
- 9780231540384
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173896.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more ...
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Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more sensate, experiential level of subjective transformation. Reading art by Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg, Claire Fontaine, Jason Lazarus, and Mika Rottenberg, as well as the politics of Occupy Wall Street, Chari identifies practices through which artists and activists have challenged neoliberalism’s social and political logics, exposing its inherent tensions and contradictions.Less
Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more sensate, experiential level of subjective transformation. Reading art by Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg, Claire Fontaine, Jason Lazarus, and Mika Rottenberg, as well as the politics of Occupy Wall Street, Chari identifies practices through which artists and activists have challenged neoliberalism’s social and political logics, exposing its inherent tensions and contradictions.
Anita Chari
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173896
- eISBN:
- 9780231540384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173896.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter explores recent forms of neoliberal protest that have emerged in response to the economic crisis in the United States and Europe. The chapter focuses on the recent Occupy movement and ...
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This chapter explores recent forms of neoliberal protest that have emerged in response to the economic crisis in the United States and Europe. The chapter focuses on the recent Occupy movement and highlights how their practices perform translations between the abstract logics of capital and political experience, and thus render the economy a site of political struggle in a way that bridges the impasse between economy and politics in contemporary theory.Less
This chapter explores recent forms of neoliberal protest that have emerged in response to the economic crisis in the United States and Europe. The chapter focuses on the recent Occupy movement and highlights how their practices perform translations between the abstract logics of capital and political experience, and thus render the economy a site of political struggle in a way that bridges the impasse between economy and politics in contemporary theory.
Tom Goyens (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041051
- eISBN:
- 9780252099595
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252041051.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and ...
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New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay between anarchism's human actors and an urban space that invites constant reinvention. Tom Goyens gathers essays that demonstrate anarchism's endurance as a political and cultural ideology and movement in New York from the 1870s to 2011. The authors cover the gamut of anarchy's emergence in and connection to the city. Some offer important new insights on German, Yiddish, Italian, and Spanish-speaking anarchists. Others explore anarchism's influence on religion, politics, and the visual and performing arts. A concluding essay looks at Occupy Wall Street's roots in New York City's anarchist tradition. Contributors: Allan Antliff, Marcella Bencivenni, Caitlin Casey, Christopher J. Castañeda, Andrew Cornell, Heather Gautney, Tom Goyens, Anne Klejment, Alan W. Moore, Erin Wallace, and Kenyon ZimmerLess
New York City's identity as a cultural and artistic center, as a point of arrival for millions of immigrants sympathetic to anarchist ideas, and as a hub of capitalism made the city a unique and dynamic terrain for anarchist activity. For 150 years, Gotham's cosmopolitan setting created a unique interplay between anarchism's human actors and an urban space that invites constant reinvention. Tom Goyens gathers essays that demonstrate anarchism's endurance as a political and cultural ideology and movement in New York from the 1870s to 2011. The authors cover the gamut of anarchy's emergence in and connection to the city. Some offer important new insights on German, Yiddish, Italian, and Spanish-speaking anarchists. Others explore anarchism's influence on religion, politics, and the visual and performing arts. A concluding essay looks at Occupy Wall Street's roots in New York City's anarchist tradition. Contributors: Allan Antliff, Marcella Bencivenni, Caitlin Casey, Christopher J. Castañeda, Andrew Cornell, Heather Gautney, Tom Goyens, Anne Klejment, Alan W. Moore, Erin Wallace, and Kenyon Zimmer
Gavin Brown, Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Patrick McCurdy (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447329411
- eISBN:
- 9781447329473
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447329411.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key ...
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Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more and more protest camps have occurred in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries around the world. People camping out in protest captures the public imagination, making media headlines and often triggering violent police responses. Across the world political leaders and security chiefs are concerned about the prospect of protest camps emerging, while everyday people are pegging their hopes and dreams on this form of coming together, in public, to voice their dissent. This book provides an in depth analysis of this new form of protest. With seventeen case studies from all around the world, it provides the most comprehensive study of protest camps to date.Less
Protest camps are a common and recurring feature of social movements around the world. From Tahrir to Taksim, acts of occupying squares, parks and streets together, have made protest camps into a key site of democratic politics in the 21st century. Since the Arab Uprisings and Occupy movement of 2011 brought protest camps to global attention, more and more protest camps have occurred in hundreds of cities and dozens of countries around the world. People camping out in protest captures the public imagination, making media headlines and often triggering violent police responses. Across the world political leaders and security chiefs are concerned about the prospect of protest camps emerging, while everyday people are pegging their hopes and dreams on this form of coming together, in public, to voice their dissent. This book provides an in depth analysis of this new form of protest. With seventeen case studies from all around the world, it provides the most comprehensive study of protest camps to date.
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813176499
- eISBN:
- 9780813176529
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813176499.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit ...
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The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, Richardson eventually earned a permanent civil service position with the City of New York, where she worked until the twenty-first century. In one way or another, all her jobs involved some kind of social justice. Over the last five decades, Richardson has paid close attention to social change movements, including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and this chapter discusses her thoughts about them, particularly her view that young people have the capability and vision to lead the nation to greater freedom, just as young people did in the 1960s. She advises them to replicate the group-centered and member-driven model student activists employed in the early 1960s and to avoid becoming ideological.Less
The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, Richardson eventually earned a permanent civil service position with the City of New York, where she worked until the twenty-first century. In one way or another, all her jobs involved some kind of social justice. Over the last five decades, Richardson has paid close attention to social change movements, including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and this chapter discusses her thoughts about them, particularly her view that young people have the capability and vision to lead the nation to greater freedom, just as young people did in the 1960s. She advises them to replicate the group-centered and member-driven model student activists employed in the early 1960s and to avoid becoming ideological.
Mark Hampton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719099236
- eISBN:
- 9781526104373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099236.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission ...
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This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a bureaucratic civil service, rule of law) enduring. Yet with Occupy Central and what many were calling the Umbrella Revolution unfolding, numerous Hong Kong people—including students too young to have a memory of the Colonial era—argued that too much had changed. To such observers, Hong Kong’s economy had become too dependent on mainland tourism, freedom of the press was gradually eroding, and Hong Kong’s hard-earned special status was evaporating. The chapter reflects on the irony that critiques of the Beijing government—including demands for full democracy—in the second decade of the twenty-first century were often accompanied by nostalgia for the Colonial period.Less
This brief chapter examines Britain’s the post-colonial legacy in Hong Kong. On the surface, little had changed, with basic institutions (an Executive-based government, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, a bureaucratic civil service, rule of law) enduring. Yet with Occupy Central and what many were calling the Umbrella Revolution unfolding, numerous Hong Kong people—including students too young to have a memory of the Colonial era—argued that too much had changed. To such observers, Hong Kong’s economy had become too dependent on mainland tourism, freedom of the press was gradually eroding, and Hong Kong’s hard-earned special status was evaporating. The chapter reflects on the irony that critiques of the Beijing government—including demands for full democracy—in the second decade of the twenty-first century were often accompanied by nostalgia for the Colonial period.
Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035910
- eISBN:
- 9780262338868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035910.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial ...
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The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial strategies that cater to the automobile and traffic flow and the desire for speed with an alternative view about a more walkable, bikeable, and transit friendly urban environment. It compares the immigrant and different ethnic experiences – a Latino immigrant urbanism in Los Angeles, elderly women dancing in the streets of the city in China, or the immigrant communities constructed in the village-in-the-city enclaves in places like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It describes the rise of the gated communities in all three places in contrast to the growing advocacy around the right to the city for everyone.Less
The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial strategies that cater to the automobile and traffic flow and the desire for speed with an alternative view about a more walkable, bikeable, and transit friendly urban environment. It compares the immigrant and different ethnic experiences – a Latino immigrant urbanism in Los Angeles, elderly women dancing in the streets of the city in China, or the immigrant communities constructed in the village-in-the-city enclaves in places like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It describes the rise of the gated communities in all three places in contrast to the growing advocacy around the right to the city for everyone.
Marco Deseriis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694860
- eISBN:
- 9781452952413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694860.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
The conclusion makes a range of theoretical moves by analyzing conceptual tensions that emerge from different chapters. After revisiting a rich philosophical debate on the community of those who have ...
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The conclusion makes a range of theoretical moves by analyzing conceptual tensions that emerge from different chapters. After revisiting a rich philosophical debate on the community of those who have nothing in common, the book ends with a reflection on how the politics of improper names may pertain to contemporary anticapitalist social movements such as Occupy and M-15.Less
The conclusion makes a range of theoretical moves by analyzing conceptual tensions that emerge from different chapters. After revisiting a rich philosophical debate on the community of those who have nothing in common, the book ends with a reflection on how the politics of improper names may pertain to contemporary anticapitalist social movements such as Occupy and M-15.
Samia Mehrez
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774165337
- eISBN:
- 9781617971303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165337.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Seeks to understand the discursive politics of translating Egypt's uprising by simultaneously situating its adaptations and appropriations as well as its deliberate mistranslations within a global ...
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Seeks to understand the discursive politics of translating Egypt's uprising by simultaneously situating its adaptations and appropriations as well as its deliberate mistranslations within a global neoliberal moment. Several interdependent nodes of translation inform this project: the traveling representations of Tahrir actively used in the Global North as a framing device from Wisconsin's labor strikes in February 2011 to the “Occupy” movement worldwide; international official discourse, civil society movements and western media employing “a politics of the intelligible” that “domesticate” translations of the uprising; and the continuing, deliberately constructed misrepresentations of the revolution and the revolutionaries by a counter-revolutionary political regime in Egypt. By focusing on a limited number of sites of translation, the author interrogates the political possibilities and stakes inherent in (mis)translating the Egyptian revolution. The reframing of Egypt's uprising within a globalizing context not only “depends on and requires the localization and containment of citizenship but imposes a dominant “imaginary whose constituents include, but are not limited to: cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, diversity, democracy, pluralism, co-existence - and most intriguing of all, tolerance.”Less
Seeks to understand the discursive politics of translating Egypt's uprising by simultaneously situating its adaptations and appropriations as well as its deliberate mistranslations within a global neoliberal moment. Several interdependent nodes of translation inform this project: the traveling representations of Tahrir actively used in the Global North as a framing device from Wisconsin's labor strikes in February 2011 to the “Occupy” movement worldwide; international official discourse, civil society movements and western media employing “a politics of the intelligible” that “domesticate” translations of the uprising; and the continuing, deliberately constructed misrepresentations of the revolution and the revolutionaries by a counter-revolutionary political regime in Egypt. By focusing on a limited number of sites of translation, the author interrogates the political possibilities and stakes inherent in (mis)translating the Egyptian revolution. The reframing of Egypt's uprising within a globalizing context not only “depends on and requires the localization and containment of citizenship but imposes a dominant “imaginary whose constituents include, but are not limited to: cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, diversity, democracy, pluralism, co-existence - and most intriguing of all, tolerance.”
Ali Aslam
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190601812
- eISBN:
- 9780190601836
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190601812.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization, Political Theory
Ordinary Democracy examines the organizing practices of contemporary social movements to suggest how citizens are insisting on having a share in governing the forces that shape their lives. Rather ...
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Ordinary Democracy examines the organizing practices of contemporary social movements to suggest how citizens are insisting on having a share in governing the forces that shape their lives. Rather than seeing the Arab Spring and movements sparked by it as failures or examples of purer democracy than those possible within the state, it sees these as efforts to democratize relationships of sovereignty in order to enlarge the sphere of active citizenship. Written with and for citizens who feel overwhelmed by political and economic forces that appear outside of their control, Ordinary Democracy spotlights how citizens are addressing the feelings of impasse that keep them from engaging in collective action. It focuses on efforts to democratize sovereignty across the Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, and Strike Debt movements, in addition to offering a fresh analysis of protests in Tahrir Square, in order to revise competing theories which view democracy, sovereignty, and citizenship as opposing rather than related concepts. Ordinary Democracy argues for the adequacy of democratic politics to address the challenges associated with neoliberalism and the growth of emergency politics. It rejects cynicism about democratic citizenship by examining the practices of ongoing movements, bridging the social detachment that has traditionally separated academic investigations of democracy and activists in order to add another layer to the public philosophy produced within these movements. Ordinary Democracy argues that democratizing sovereignty calls for both the revitalization of citizen agency and the refusal to cede the state to undemocratic forces.Less
Ordinary Democracy examines the organizing practices of contemporary social movements to suggest how citizens are insisting on having a share in governing the forces that shape their lives. Rather than seeing the Arab Spring and movements sparked by it as failures or examples of purer democracy than those possible within the state, it sees these as efforts to democratize relationships of sovereignty in order to enlarge the sphere of active citizenship. Written with and for citizens who feel overwhelmed by political and economic forces that appear outside of their control, Ordinary Democracy spotlights how citizens are addressing the feelings of impasse that keep them from engaging in collective action. It focuses on efforts to democratize sovereignty across the Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, and Strike Debt movements, in addition to offering a fresh analysis of protests in Tahrir Square, in order to revise competing theories which view democracy, sovereignty, and citizenship as opposing rather than related concepts. Ordinary Democracy argues for the adequacy of democratic politics to address the challenges associated with neoliberalism and the growth of emergency politics. It rejects cynicism about democratic citizenship by examining the practices of ongoing movements, bridging the social detachment that has traditionally separated academic investigations of democracy and activists in order to add another layer to the public philosophy produced within these movements. Ordinary Democracy argues that democratizing sovereignty calls for both the revitalization of citizen agency and the refusal to cede the state to undemocratic forces.
Samson Yuen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740916
- eISBN:
- 9781501740930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740916.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter reveals the complexities of the Umbrella Movement by shifting the focus to the Mongkok protest camp, known as Occupy Mongkok. Occupy Mongkok was not just an extension of the Admiralty ...
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This chapter reveals the complexities of the Umbrella Movement by shifting the focus to the Mongkok protest camp, known as Occupy Mongkok. Occupy Mongkok was not just an extension of the Admiralty camp where the Umbrella Movement originated. Instead, Occupy Mongkok developed a movement environment and dynamics that not only distinguished it from the Admiralty camp but also challenged the city's political culture. First, despite sharing similar demographic features with their Admiralty counterparts, Mongkok protesters showed greater inclination to behave militantly, eschewing the civic, nonviolent repertoires that were characteristic of previous protests. Second, even though Occupy Mongkok drew cross-class participation, the protest camp also highlighted the role of the grassroots citizens—defined more in cultural than socioeconomic terms—in political contention, which had been neglected in the city's protracted struggle for democracy. Ultimately, Occupy Mongkok could be regarded as a transgressive episode of contention in Hong Kong's history of political activism.Less
This chapter reveals the complexities of the Umbrella Movement by shifting the focus to the Mongkok protest camp, known as Occupy Mongkok. Occupy Mongkok was not just an extension of the Admiralty camp where the Umbrella Movement originated. Instead, Occupy Mongkok developed a movement environment and dynamics that not only distinguished it from the Admiralty camp but also challenged the city's political culture. First, despite sharing similar demographic features with their Admiralty counterparts, Mongkok protesters showed greater inclination to behave militantly, eschewing the civic, nonviolent repertoires that were characteristic of previous protests. Second, even though Occupy Mongkok drew cross-class participation, the protest camp also highlighted the role of the grassroots citizens—defined more in cultural than socioeconomic terms—in political contention, which had been neglected in the city's protracted struggle for democracy. Ultimately, Occupy Mongkok could be regarded as a transgressive episode of contention in Hong Kong's history of political activism.
Oscar Ho
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740916
- eISBN:
- 9781501740930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740916.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter presents a photo essay featuring protest art during the Umbrella Movement. One of the most outstanding achievements of the Occupy Movement was its artistic creation during the ...
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This chapter presents a photo essay featuring protest art during the Umbrella Movement. One of the most outstanding achievements of the Occupy Movement was its artistic creation during the occupation, inside and outside of the occupied zones. The movement triggered an unprecedented outburst of creative expressions, turning the occupied zones into giant theaters and galleries that provided new definitions of political/community art. Outside the occupied zones, there were also countless images, texts, and animations delivered via websites, e-mail, and Facebook. The adaptation of popular culture not only created commonly identified images and values, but it also generated a sense of humor with a touch of cynicism, which is typical of Hong Kong's pop culture. Starting at the turn of the century, when street protest became a common activity in Hong Kong, a new concept called “happy confrontation” was invented. This was a belief that political confrontation could be undertaken in a celebrative mode and that street demonstrations could take the form of a carnival. Of course, there were people who disagreed with such a concept, especially for the Umbrella Movement, which was full of hardship, conflicts, and brutal attacks. Nevertheless, throughout the occupation, such humor and cynicism could be easily found, especially at Mongkok.Less
This chapter presents a photo essay featuring protest art during the Umbrella Movement. One of the most outstanding achievements of the Occupy Movement was its artistic creation during the occupation, inside and outside of the occupied zones. The movement triggered an unprecedented outburst of creative expressions, turning the occupied zones into giant theaters and galleries that provided new definitions of political/community art. Outside the occupied zones, there were also countless images, texts, and animations delivered via websites, e-mail, and Facebook. The adaptation of popular culture not only created commonly identified images and values, but it also generated a sense of humor with a touch of cynicism, which is typical of Hong Kong's pop culture. Starting at the turn of the century, when street protest became a common activity in Hong Kong, a new concept called “happy confrontation” was invented. This was a belief that political confrontation could be undertaken in a celebrative mode and that street demonstrations could take the form of a carnival. Of course, there were people who disagreed with such a concept, especially for the Umbrella Movement, which was full of hardship, conflicts, and brutal attacks. Nevertheless, throughout the occupation, such humor and cynicism could be easily found, especially at Mongkok.
Jieh-min Wu
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501740916
- eISBN:
- 9781501740930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501740916.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter focuses on the Sunflower Occupy Movement which broke out in March of 2014, shaking Taiwan's political landscape and its relations with China. The Sunflower Movement was a culmination of ...
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This chapter focuses on the Sunflower Occupy Movement which broke out in March of 2014, shaking Taiwan's political landscape and its relations with China. The Sunflower Movement was a culmination of resistance to China's political influence and to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government's democratic careening. It arose from a changing political atmosphere and a wave of interconnected social protests in preceding years. Ultimately, it was a rare transformative event in which powerful collective action ruptures the structures confining a country. “Structures” here refers to two kinds of structure that constrain the space of individual and collective action but also induce action within this space: the structure of political rules, and that of ideology. This popular upsurge brought about tremendous impact, not merely transforming the political landscape of Taiwan but also diverting the political direction of the country from the KMT's pro-China policy, thus interrupting the course of a decade-long Chinese Communist Party (CCP)–KMT cooperation.Less
This chapter focuses on the Sunflower Occupy Movement which broke out in March of 2014, shaking Taiwan's political landscape and its relations with China. The Sunflower Movement was a culmination of resistance to China's political influence and to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government's democratic careening. It arose from a changing political atmosphere and a wave of interconnected social protests in preceding years. Ultimately, it was a rare transformative event in which powerful collective action ruptures the structures confining a country. “Structures” here refers to two kinds of structure that constrain the space of individual and collective action but also induce action within this space: the structure of political rules, and that of ideology. This popular upsurge brought about tremendous impact, not merely transforming the political landscape of Taiwan but also diverting the political direction of the country from the KMT's pro-China policy, thus interrupting the course of a decade-long Chinese Communist Party (CCP)–KMT cooperation.
John Pickles
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813175324
- eISBN:
- 9780813175676
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813175324.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The geographer John Pickles defines place as the locus of natural and social life worlds, which provides an operative context of common understandings, institutions, and practices along with the ...
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The geographer John Pickles defines place as the locus of natural and social life worlds, which provides an operative context of common understandings, institutions, and practices along with the natural environment that sustains the life of communities. He characterizes the defense of these “commons” as the arena in which place-based activism takes center stage. From opposition to mountaintop removal mining to forest and waterways environmentalism, “commons” activism has a long history in Appalachia. The author provides theoretical guidelines for how to think about this activism in relation to the Occupy movement, Right to the City, global labor, and worldwide autonomization movements.Less
The geographer John Pickles defines place as the locus of natural and social life worlds, which provides an operative context of common understandings, institutions, and practices along with the natural environment that sustains the life of communities. He characterizes the defense of these “commons” as the arena in which place-based activism takes center stage. From opposition to mountaintop removal mining to forest and waterways environmentalism, “commons” activism has a long history in Appalachia. The author provides theoretical guidelines for how to think about this activism in relation to the Occupy movement, Right to the City, global labor, and worldwide autonomization movements.
Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine Trost (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520274228
- eISBN:
- 9780520954106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274228.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This epilogue suggests that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movements have something fundamental in common. They are both expressions of pain from differing points of view of the same ...
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This epilogue suggests that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movements have something fundamental in common. They are both expressions of pain from differing points of view of the same social process—the dismantling of American middle-class life. In effect, the Tea Party movement is reacting to the feeling that prosperity is being taken away from them while the Occupy movement is reacting to the feeling that they will never have it. The great financial meltdown of 2008 brought a shocking and explosive ending to what had been a gradual process of decay. In its final stage before the financial collapse, the erosion of middle-class life was masked by easy credit, in particular, the ability of homeowners to borrow against what seemed like the continuous upward valuations of their property. In September 2008, this all came apart. Millions would find themselves underwater on their homes—owing more than the home's current value; grinding recession and large-scale, long-term unemployment was on the horizon. The financial crisis came toward the end of the working lives of most Tea Party supporters. Everything they had earned, suddenly, was insecure. They would enter into a furious mobilization against those they felt were trying to take it away. Whereas, for many in the OWS movement, the financial crisis came at the beginning of their working lives. Their prospects for housing, for adequate wages, for the mere opportunity to pay off their student loans—all this was bleak, and worse.Less
This epilogue suggests that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movements have something fundamental in common. They are both expressions of pain from differing points of view of the same social process—the dismantling of American middle-class life. In effect, the Tea Party movement is reacting to the feeling that prosperity is being taken away from them while the Occupy movement is reacting to the feeling that they will never have it. The great financial meltdown of 2008 brought a shocking and explosive ending to what had been a gradual process of decay. In its final stage before the financial collapse, the erosion of middle-class life was masked by easy credit, in particular, the ability of homeowners to borrow against what seemed like the continuous upward valuations of their property. In September 2008, this all came apart. Millions would find themselves underwater on their homes—owing more than the home's current value; grinding recession and large-scale, long-term unemployment was on the horizon. The financial crisis came toward the end of the working lives of most Tea Party supporters. Everything they had earned, suddenly, was insecure. They would enter into a furious mobilization against those they felt were trying to take it away. Whereas, for many in the OWS movement, the financial crisis came at the beginning of their working lives. Their prospects for housing, for adequate wages, for the mere opportunity to pay off their student loans—all this was bleak, and worse.
Matthew Frye Jacobson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469649665
- eISBN:
- 9781469649689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649665.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter offers a study of the early Obama years against the backdrop of national optimism and the darkness of the Great Recession. Images capture street protests, good humor, and political ...
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This chapter offers a study of the early Obama years against the backdrop of national optimism and the darkness of the Great Recession. Images capture street protests, good humor, and political division against a backdrop of economic devastation and distress.Less
This chapter offers a study of the early Obama years against the backdrop of national optimism and the darkness of the Great Recession. Images capture street protests, good humor, and political division against a backdrop of economic devastation and distress.
Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474456319
- eISBN:
- 9781474496353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456319.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The conclusion summarises the main arguments of the book and relates the council tradition to contemporary protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Indignados. Although the council movements ...
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The conclusion summarises the main arguments of the book and relates the council tradition to contemporary protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Indignados. Although the council movements of the 20th century cannot be used as a blueprint for future protest and organisation, the council tradition and contemporary movements of Occupation share the ambitions of self-organisation, of pluralising the traditional spaces of politics, and of giving institutional form to the constituent power.Less
The conclusion summarises the main arguments of the book and relates the council tradition to contemporary protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Indignados. Although the council movements of the 20th century cannot be used as a blueprint for future protest and organisation, the council tradition and contemporary movements of Occupation share the ambitions of self-organisation, of pluralising the traditional spaces of politics, and of giving institutional form to the constituent power.
Christopher A. Ford
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813165400
- eISBN:
- 9780813165424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813165400.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter emphasizes the increasingly forceful articulation of a growing “China Model,” both for domestic governance and for international harmony. Beijing became increasingly willing to undertake ...
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This chapter emphasizes the increasingly forceful articulation of a growing “China Model,” both for domestic governance and for international harmony. Beijing became increasingly willing to undertake the promotion of the China Model with a degree of self-assertion that marked a dramatic erosion of earlier time-biding approaches. China seized the opportunity to paint the financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street movement as evidence in the economic and political decline of America as a world power. China no longer saw the United States as worth emulating, as while the rest of the world suffered due to their dependence on America, China was making progress. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the Chinese press focused on how the candidates were engaging in “China-bashing” in an effort to make America’s decline seem less severe.Less
This chapter emphasizes the increasingly forceful articulation of a growing “China Model,” both for domestic governance and for international harmony. Beijing became increasingly willing to undertake the promotion of the China Model with a degree of self-assertion that marked a dramatic erosion of earlier time-biding approaches. China seized the opportunity to paint the financial crisis and the Occupy Wall Street movement as evidence in the economic and political decline of America as a world power. China no longer saw the United States as worth emulating, as while the rest of the world suffered due to their dependence on America, China was making progress. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, the Chinese press focused on how the candidates were engaging in “China-bashing” in an effort to make America’s decline seem less severe.
Edward W. Soja
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520281721
- eISBN:
- 9780520957633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520281721.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
The 2010s are beginning to look a lot like the 1960s, as a new era of urban crises emerges, led by those who gained the least from the neoliberal globalization and the uneven effects of the New ...
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The 2010s are beginning to look a lot like the 1960s, as a new era of urban crises emerges, led by those who gained the least from the neoliberal globalization and the uneven effects of the New Economy. Two major differences exist between the 1960s and the present era. New technologies foster a degree of social networking unknown in the past, and an expanded understanding of the politics of place and space have made almost every uprising revolve around public squares, from Tahrir in Cairo, Puerto del Sol in Madrid, and Syntagma in Athens to Zuccotti Park in New York for Occupy Wall Street and the City Hall Lawn in Los Angeles. With the help of the urban geographer and graffiti artist Stefano Bloch, Soja looks in detail at the Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Orange County movements to bring up to date what has been written in the previous chapters. The resurgence of innovative labor-community coalitions in Los Angeles made its occupation more closely linked to local government and labor unions, something not all occupiers felt comfortable with. The movement’s goals were clearly expressed in Los Angeles and Orange County.Less
The 2010s are beginning to look a lot like the 1960s, as a new era of urban crises emerges, led by those who gained the least from the neoliberal globalization and the uneven effects of the New Economy. Two major differences exist between the 1960s and the present era. New technologies foster a degree of social networking unknown in the past, and an expanded understanding of the politics of place and space have made almost every uprising revolve around public squares, from Tahrir in Cairo, Puerto del Sol in Madrid, and Syntagma in Athens to Zuccotti Park in New York for Occupy Wall Street and the City Hall Lawn in Los Angeles. With the help of the urban geographer and graffiti artist Stefano Bloch, Soja looks in detail at the Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Orange County movements to bring up to date what has been written in the previous chapters. The resurgence of innovative labor-community coalitions in Los Angeles made its occupation more closely linked to local government and labor unions, something not all occupiers felt comfortable with. The movement’s goals were clearly expressed in Los Angeles and Orange County.
