Thousands participated in the 2012 May Day events spearheaded by people who identify themselves as part of Occupy Wall Street.More…
OccupyMovement
Our inaugural digital forum on the Occupy Movement features critical essays by Craig Calhoun, Michael Kennedy, Saskia Sassen and a number of other leading scholars, ethnographic dispatches from multiple sites of occupation and ongoing activism, and a curated digest of perspectives on Occupy that have appeared on other sites and in other publications.
| March 14, 2012
Occupy Ethnography: Reflections on Studying the Movement
Winter has seen Occupy Wall Street shift gears. Meetings have moved indoors, and the movement is now more a networkMore…
| March 9, 2012
Were March 1st Demonstrators Occupy’s Comeback Kids?
It’s been a long, cold winter and people are wondering, “Is Occupy still going?” It is. But how and whereMore…
| February 6, 2012
Conference-calling across the Occupy Rhizome
As Occupy camps spread around Southern California in early October, a small group of occupiers located at City Hall inMore…
| January 25, 2012
Occupy Philosophy!
Smack in the middle of the holidays, on a Wednesday night in very late December, about 150 people—philosophy professors andMore…
| January 24, 2012
Trashing the Script
In the spring of 1992, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping toured southern China. This was the trip that furthered the opening of China’s state-run More…
Living Politically
Less than ten years ago, a day of international protests swept across the globe, involving millions of human beings for nearly a full 24 hours. It was a global protest against the United States starting a war against Iraq, and was, as far as we know, the first coordinated global protest against state-sponsored violence. A few years before that, at a World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999, a series of intense, angry protests against global economic injustice began. These actions occurred repeatedly over several years, and across several continents. As recently as the winter of 2011, there were enormous protests in Madison, Wisconsin against anti-union legislation. The protests were explicitly focused on class and inequalities, not just on wealth, but also on the discrepancy of power between the very rich and the rest.
| January 11, 2012
Foreclosed, Reopened
The signs of vacated communities are obtrusive: overgrown lawns, “for lease” signs, real-estate advertisements—or in the strange case of ZuccottiMore…
| January 11, 2012
Reflections on Occupy Harvard
By my second month living in Boston, I had already produced a standard response to my friends’ questions about howMore…
