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.
Heather Gautney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041051
- eISBN:
- 9780252099595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252041051.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a massive protest movement calling for radical social change and an end to unbridled corruption. OWS emerged in September 2011 in New York with highly confrontational ...
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a massive protest movement calling for radical social change and an end to unbridled corruption. OWS emerged in September 2011 in New York with highly confrontational demonstrations against the Wall Street banks, and a small encampment in the city’s financial district. Within weeks, hundreds of local camps emerged throughout the U.S., along with ongoing series of vehement, decentralized protest actions. Much to the chagrin of the American political establishment, OWS operates as an elusive and flexible, “leaderless” organization, without a centralized authority or party affiliation, and uses occupation as a primary form of protest. This paper looks at the ways in which the movements’ leaderless organization and egalitarian social vision were/are deeply influenced by anarchist principles like anti-authoritarianism (anti-statism), anti-capitalism, direct action, and prefiguration. It then discusses attempts by Occupy camps, such as those in New York, Philadelphia, and Oakland, to repossess spaces, rights, and other forms of social wealth within different urban contexts. It analyzes how the Occupy camps, as well as innovations like the General Assemblies, spokescouncils, and social media formations, are transforming urban landscapes and creating new forms of social and political engagement based on anarchist praxis.Less
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a massive protest movement calling for radical social change and an end to unbridled corruption. OWS emerged in September 2011 in New York with highly confrontational demonstrations against the Wall Street banks, and a small encampment in the city’s financial district. Within weeks, hundreds of local camps emerged throughout the U.S., along with ongoing series of vehement, decentralized protest actions. Much to the chagrin of the American political establishment, OWS operates as an elusive and flexible, “leaderless” organization, without a centralized authority or party affiliation, and uses occupation as a primary form of protest. This paper looks at the ways in which the movements’ leaderless organization and egalitarian social vision were/are deeply influenced by anarchist principles like anti-authoritarianism (anti-statism), anti-capitalism, direct action, and prefiguration. It then discusses attempts by Occupy camps, such as those in New York, Philadelphia, and Oakland, to repossess spaces, rights, and other forms of social wealth within different urban contexts. It analyzes how the Occupy camps, as well as innovations like the General Assemblies, spokescouncils, and social media formations, are transforming urban landscapes and creating new forms of social and political engagement based on anarchist praxis.
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.
Heather McKee Hurwitz and Verta Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- February 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190265144
- eISBN:
- 9780190265175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190265144.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Democratization
This chapter analyzes the significance of gender conflict and feminist mobilization for the emergence and dynamics of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in 2011. The analysis is based on ...
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This chapter analyzes the significance of gender conflict and feminist mobilization for the emergence and dynamics of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in 2011. The analysis is based on participant observation, in-depth interviews with seventy-three participants, and movement documents. The chapter shows that gender conflict influenced the Occupy movement’s goals, organization, tactics, and strategies, giving rise to spin-off feminist mobilizations that reinvigorated feminist organizations and networks. The analysis focuses on three processes that were central to feminist mobilization within Occupy: the construction of feminist collective identity, the creation of feminist free spaces, and the use of feminist bridge leaders.Less
This chapter analyzes the significance of gender conflict and feminist mobilization for the emergence and dynamics of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in 2011. The analysis is based on participant observation, in-depth interviews with seventy-three participants, and movement documents. The chapter shows that gender conflict influenced the Occupy movement’s goals, organization, tactics, and strategies, giving rise to spin-off feminist mobilizations that reinvigorated feminist organizations and networks. The analysis focuses on three processes that were central to feminist mobilization within Occupy: the construction of feminist collective identity, the creation of feminist free spaces, and the use of feminist bridge leaders.
Sanford F. Schram
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190253011
- eISBN:
- 9780190253042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190253011.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Political Economy
This chapter looks in depth at the political potential reflected in Occupy Wall Street as a protest movement. The chapter examines how Occupy can be seen as successful as a protest movement in ...
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This chapter looks in depth at the political potential reflected in Occupy Wall Street as a protest movement. The chapter examines how Occupy can be seen as successful as a protest movement in reframing public discourse about growing inequality in an age of neoliberalization. The chapter poses questions regarding how the multitude of diverse people can become a concerted political force in an age of neoliberal political as well as economic constraints. The chapter looks at how precarity has usefully served as an actually existing term of politically organizing the multitude, how the politics of representation via spectacle of protest can further mobilize people to act in concert, and how protest politics can help influence elections and public policymaking.Less
This chapter looks in depth at the political potential reflected in Occupy Wall Street as a protest movement. The chapter examines how Occupy can be seen as successful as a protest movement in reframing public discourse about growing inequality in an age of neoliberalization. The chapter poses questions regarding how the multitude of diverse people can become a concerted political force in an age of neoliberal political as well as economic constraints. The chapter looks at how precarity has usefully served as an actually existing term of politically organizing the multitude, how the politics of representation via spectacle of protest can further mobilize people to act in concert, and how protest politics can help influence elections and public policymaking.
Sanford F. Schram
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190253011
- eISBN:
- 9780190253042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190253011.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Political Economy
This chapter examines the contrasting responses to the recent shift in the political economy by Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The chapter makes use of the idea of melancholia (especially as ...
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This chapter examines the contrasting responses to the recent shift in the political economy by Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The chapter makes use of the idea of melancholia (especially as deployed by Sigmund Freud) to suggest the different limitations of each political movement and how they have a shared concern that could conceivably become the basis for a more broadly based mobilization by ordinary Americans in response to ongoing neoliberalization, increasing inequality, and the growing precarity endured by more and more ordinary people in the changing economy.Less
This chapter examines the contrasting responses to the recent shift in the political economy by Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The chapter makes use of the idea of melancholia (especially as deployed by Sigmund Freud) to suggest the different limitations of each political movement and how they have a shared concern that could conceivably become the basis for a more broadly based mobilization by ordinary Americans in response to ongoing neoliberalization, increasing inequality, and the growing precarity endured by more and more ordinary people in the changing economy.
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
Gillian Lester
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199988488
- eISBN:
- 9780190218249
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199988488.003.0010
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Research and Evaluation
Despite the broad reach of the American welfare state, Americans continue to have conflicted and contradictory attitudes about the role of the state in mediating economic equality through both ...
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Despite the broad reach of the American welfare state, Americans continue to have conflicted and contradictory attitudes about the role of the state in mediating economic equality through both taxation and social spending. This chapter identifies several key themes that help explain these contradictions. Specifically, information about taxes and spending is complex and hard to understand, cognitive biases and limitations hamper people’s ability to process information in a way that is always consistent, and affective and symbolic factors influence social attitudes about taxes and government benefits. This chapter explores the implications of these insights for public policy, including the possibility of designing tax and welfare institutions to counteract cognitive bias and raising public awareness by advertising the benefits of popular government programs. It also examines the recurring phenomenon of grassroots mobilization of American voters around issues of taxes and spending, and contrasts the Tea Party movement with Occupy Wall Street.Less
Despite the broad reach of the American welfare state, Americans continue to have conflicted and contradictory attitudes about the role of the state in mediating economic equality through both taxation and social spending. This chapter identifies several key themes that help explain these contradictions. Specifically, information about taxes and spending is complex and hard to understand, cognitive biases and limitations hamper people’s ability to process information in a way that is always consistent, and affective and symbolic factors influence social attitudes about taxes and government benefits. This chapter explores the implications of these insights for public policy, including the possibility of designing tax and welfare institutions to counteract cognitive bias and raising public awareness by advertising the benefits of popular government programs. It also examines the recurring phenomenon of grassroots mobilization of American voters around issues of taxes and spending, and contrasts the Tea Party movement with Occupy Wall Street.
Morton Keller
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199383375
- eISBN:
- 9780190252434
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199383375.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the impact of Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012 on American politics. It begins with an overview of America’s political culture, with emphasis on the role of the Democratic ...
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This chapter examines the impact of Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012 on American politics. It begins with an overview of America’s political culture, with emphasis on the role of the Democratic Party and Republican Party, and the polarization of American politics. It then considers the hallmarks of the new politics, focusing on advocacy groups, big money, media, the blogosphere, and social networks. It also looks at the role of public opinion polls, pundits, and predictions in American political life; the rise of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street; and Obama’s relationship with progressives, liberals, and the Left and Right.Less
This chapter examines the impact of Barack Obama’s reelection in 2012 on American politics. It begins with an overview of America’s political culture, with emphasis on the role of the Democratic Party and Republican Party, and the polarization of American politics. It then considers the hallmarks of the new politics, focusing on advocacy groups, big money, media, the blogosphere, and social networks. It also looks at the role of public opinion polls, pundits, and predictions in American political life; the rise of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street; and Obama’s relationship with progressives, liberals, and the Left and Right.
Deana A. Rohlinger, Jesse Klein, Tara M. Stamm, and Kyle Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479898992
- eISBN:
- 9781479806799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479898992.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Collective identity, or a shared sense of belonging to a group, is the scaffolding of social movements. Integral to collective identity is the creation and articulation of the boundaries of a group. ...
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Collective identity, or a shared sense of belonging to a group, is the scaffolding of social movements. Integral to collective identity is the creation and articulation of the boundaries of a group. Boundaries promote an awareness of a collective's commonalities and effectively demarcate who is—and who is not—a legitimate member of a group. In short, boundaries communicate the cognitive, moral, and emotional connections among individuals to both group members and external audiences. This chapter examines boundary shifts in the Florida Tea Party movement (TPM). It shows that the collective identity of the local TPM constricted with the cycle of contention. Specifically, it identifies three “episodes of contention” and highlights how electoral success and the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which made overlapping claims, forced the TPM to renegotiate its collective identity boundaries in ways that limited its political appeal. It concludes with a discussion of the implications for the study of social movement dynamics and collective identity.Less
Collective identity, or a shared sense of belonging to a group, is the scaffolding of social movements. Integral to collective identity is the creation and articulation of the boundaries of a group. Boundaries promote an awareness of a collective's commonalities and effectively demarcate who is—and who is not—a legitimate member of a group. In short, boundaries communicate the cognitive, moral, and emotional connections among individuals to both group members and external audiences. This chapter examines boundary shifts in the Florida Tea Party movement (TPM). It shows that the collective identity of the local TPM constricted with the cycle of contention. Specifically, it identifies three “episodes of contention” and highlights how electoral success and the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which made overlapping claims, forced the TPM to renegotiate its collective identity boundaries in ways that limited its political appeal. It concludes with a discussion of the implications for the study of social movement dynamics and collective identity.
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.
Deva R. Woodly
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190203986
- eISBN:
- 9780190244125
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190203986.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The book has argued that political meanings are created, shaped, and changed primarily in public discourse and that the arguments that frame these discourses, as well as the ways that they change ...
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The book has argued that political meanings are created, shaped, and changed primarily in public discourse and that the arguments that frame these discourses, as well as the ways that they change over time, can and do alter what people understand public problems and their solutions to be. The interplay between these levels of individual understanding, choice, innovation and public constraint is what politics consists of, providing a field of action that is, at once, practically bounded and potentially infinite. For political challengers, this field of discourse and action is an indispensable site of power. The conclusion explores the implications of the book’s theory of political acceptance for two twenty-first-century social movements: the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.Less
The book has argued that political meanings are created, shaped, and changed primarily in public discourse and that the arguments that frame these discourses, as well as the ways that they change over time, can and do alter what people understand public problems and their solutions to be. The interplay between these levels of individual understanding, choice, innovation and public constraint is what politics consists of, providing a field of action that is, at once, practically bounded and potentially infinite. For political challengers, this field of discourse and action is an indispensable site of power. The conclusion explores the implications of the book’s theory of political acceptance for two twenty-first-century social movements: the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.
Todd Wolfson (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038846
- eISBN:
- 9780252096808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038846.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This concluding chapter reexamines the Cyber Left against the backdrop of informational capitalism and history. Through this lens, it discusses indymedia as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street and many ...
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This concluding chapter reexamines the Cyber Left against the backdrop of informational capitalism and history. Through this lens, it discusses indymedia as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street and many of the emergent social movements that have developed since the economic crisis of 2008. It also explains how the core logic and strategy of the Cyber Left played a significant role in the inability of the Global Social Justice Movement to build long-term power. It identifies four interrelated, core problems: (1) a retreat from class and capitalism as analytic and political categories; (2) a tendency toward technological determinism; (3) an anti-institutional bias; and (4) no emphasis on political education and leadership development.Less
This concluding chapter reexamines the Cyber Left against the backdrop of informational capitalism and history. Through this lens, it discusses indymedia as a precursor to Occupy Wall Street and many of the emergent social movements that have developed since the economic crisis of 2008. It also explains how the core logic and strategy of the Cyber Left played a significant role in the inability of the Global Social Justice Movement to build long-term power. It identifies four interrelated, core problems: (1) a retreat from class and capitalism as analytic and political categories; (2) a tendency toward technological determinism; (3) an anti-institutional bias; and (4) no emphasis on political education and leadership development.
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.
John Stackhouse
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198785453
- eISBN:
- 9780191827372
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198785453.003.0013
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business
Serious debate about the state of capitalism has been undermined in both media and political realms by the technological forces that, ironically, capitalism helped bring to life. The pervasive power ...
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Serious debate about the state of capitalism has been undermined in both media and political realms by the technological forces that, ironically, capitalism helped bring to life. The pervasive power of mobile phones has democratized information and ideas, largely through search engines and social media channels, and made political debate more accessible to more humans than ever before. Yet those same forces have fragmented humanity in ways that equally make public dialogue more challenging than ever, as mainstream media and political parties become captive to smaller and more interest-driven groups. The intensification of news and political cycles—and the concurrent shrinking of collective attention spans—further weaken efforts to focus the public on both long-term and structural challenges in the economy.Less
Serious debate about the state of capitalism has been undermined in both media and political realms by the technological forces that, ironically, capitalism helped bring to life. The pervasive power of mobile phones has democratized information and ideas, largely through search engines and social media channels, and made political debate more accessible to more humans than ever before. Yet those same forces have fragmented humanity in ways that equally make public dialogue more challenging than ever, as mainstream media and political parties become captive to smaller and more interest-driven groups. The intensification of news and political cycles—and the concurrent shrinking of collective attention spans—further weaken efforts to focus the public on both long-term and structural challenges in the economy.
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226439648
- eISBN:
- 9780226439815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226439815.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter focuses on the historical event known as 9/11, particularly on the shapes this event has taken in lower Manhattan. The concept of an event eddy is introduced. This concept captures the ...
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This chapter focuses on the historical event known as 9/11, particularly on the shapes this event has taken in lower Manhattan. The concept of an event eddy is introduced. This concept captures the ways that events can get caught in uncertain oscillations of forms and flows, including, in the case of 9/11, monument construction, legal trials, civil sphere institutional initiatives, and residential reconfiguration. The chapter details how 9/11 got caught in the event space of lower Manhattan for the decade after the terrorist attacks. It also analyzes the sedimentation of this historical event in and as official categories, documents, laws, and symbols. For example, the 9/11 Commission Report is analyzed as a document in which challenges of description, categorization, and evaluation are met within constraints of documentary and pictorial genres of representation.Less
This chapter focuses on the historical event known as 9/11, particularly on the shapes this event has taken in lower Manhattan. The concept of an event eddy is introduced. This concept captures the ways that events can get caught in uncertain oscillations of forms and flows, including, in the case of 9/11, monument construction, legal trials, civil sphere institutional initiatives, and residential reconfiguration. The chapter details how 9/11 got caught in the event space of lower Manhattan for the decade after the terrorist attacks. It also analyzes the sedimentation of this historical event in and as official categories, documents, laws, and symbols. For example, the 9/11 Commission Report is analyzed as a document in which challenges of description, categorization, and evaluation are met within constraints of documentary and pictorial genres of representation.
Margaret Kohn
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190606596
- eISBN:
- 9780190606633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190606596.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter argues that we should understand the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement synecdochally as a struggle over the meaning and significance of public and private. The first section of the ...
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This chapter argues that we should understand the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement synecdochally as a struggle over the meaning and significance of public and private. The first section of the chapter introduces the case of Occupy Toronto—one especially interesting site of the broader “Occupy” movement sparked by Occupy Wall Street—and explains why critics of the occupation described it as a privatization of public space. The next section of the chapter introduces two different theories of the public, which the chapter terms the sovereigntist and populist models. This distinction helps explain the polarized reaction to OWS, and provides an alternative way of theorizing the public.Less
This chapter argues that we should understand the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement synecdochally as a struggle over the meaning and significance of public and private. The first section of the chapter introduces the case of Occupy Toronto—one especially interesting site of the broader “Occupy” movement sparked by Occupy Wall Street—and explains why critics of the occupation described it as a privatization of public space. The next section of the chapter introduces two different theories of the public, which the chapter terms the sovereigntist and populist models. This distinction helps explain the polarized reaction to OWS, and provides an alternative way of theorizing the public.
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.
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.
Nicholas Mirzoeff
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526107213
- eISBN:
- 9781526120984
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526107213.003.0016
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the formation and dissemination of what the author has called the ‘visual commons’ in photography. The visual commons can be explored through photography because photography has ...
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This chapter explores the formation and dissemination of what the author has called the ‘visual commons’ in photography. The visual commons can be explored through photography because photography has become the medium of the commons and it is today perhaps the first universal medium. Several key moments in this history are explored, beginning with the first use of the term ‘photography’ in the Americas by Hercule Florence in Brazil in 1832. Florence overwrote the existing visual commons with photography’s scene of representation. Soon after British Chartists were photographed on Kennington Common, London, in 1848, the first such image of mass political action emerged, reclaiming the visual commons. The chapter then concentrates on the visual commons after slavery in North America, culminating in the 1968 encampment known as Resurrection City in Washington D.C. as photographed by occupier Jill Freedman. A final section notes how this legacy was important to the Occupy Wall Street movement.Less
This chapter explores the formation and dissemination of what the author has called the ‘visual commons’ in photography. The visual commons can be explored through photography because photography has become the medium of the commons and it is today perhaps the first universal medium. Several key moments in this history are explored, beginning with the first use of the term ‘photography’ in the Americas by Hercule Florence in Brazil in 1832. Florence overwrote the existing visual commons with photography’s scene of representation. Soon after British Chartists were photographed on Kennington Common, London, in 1848, the first such image of mass political action emerged, reclaiming the visual commons. The chapter then concentrates on the visual commons after slavery in North America, culminating in the 1968 encampment known as Resurrection City in Washington D.C. as photographed by occupier Jill Freedman. A final section notes how this legacy was important to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
