The May 2012 issue of American Ethnologist has three open-access articles focused on the Occupy movement. In “The Occupy MovementMore…
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Critical Reactions to “Kony 2012″
Adam Branch, a Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda, has posted a critique of the recent viralMore…
Amorous Analogies: How #OWS Connects the Dots
In a social theory graduate seminar about a year ago, Peter Marcuse, a radical lawyer and urban planning prof, cameMore…
Interpreting Occupy
The appearance of OWS has been a thrilling event and incipient movement. It has already shifted the terms of debate in national and electoral politics, even as it has stimulated intense intellectual excitement among academics. How do we (and might we) understand what it is, characterize what it portends, and engage it? My goal here is to wonder out loud about the relationship between this movement or event, and the inherited (or even recently minted) categories we use to interpret it, and so also about how we relate thought and action.
