Adrian Pabst

Adrian Pabst is lecturer in politics at the University of Kent, where he co-convenes a new MA in political theory and practices of resistance. He is author of Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy (Eerdmans, forthcoming) and editor of The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Pope Benedict XVI’s Social Encyclical and the Future of Political Economy (Wipf & Stock 2011). Currently he is writing The Politics of Paradox, a book on contemporary alternatives to the logic of left/right and state/market that has been dominant since the secular settlement of the French Revolution.

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November 29, 2011

The Resurgence of the Civic

By Adrian Pabst On November 29, 2011 In Essays With No Comments Permalink

Occupy Wall Street and cognate groups around the world are part of a protest movement that is both global and local. It is global in terms of geographic scope, thematic range, and social composition. It is local in terms of the specific objects of protest and the protesters’ goals. The organic blending of the global with the local is reflected in the very unfolding of this worldwide wave.