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Author : Jeroen Gunning
Release : 2014
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Occupy a Square? by : Jeroen Gunning
Download or read book Why Occupy a Square? written by Jeroen Gunning. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how social movements can become mass scale with the aid of smart social networking and media management.
Author : Jeroen Gunning
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Occupy a Square? by : Jeroen Gunning
Download or read book Why Occupy a Square? written by Jeroen Gunning. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmaneuver the police? Was this really a 'leaderless revolution,' as so many pundits claimed, or were the demonstrations an outgrowth of the protest networks that had developed over the past decade? Why did so many people with no history of activism participate? What role did economic and systemic crises play in creating the conditions for these protests to occur? Was this really a Facebook revolution? Why Occupy a Square? is a dynamic exploration of the shape and timing of these extraordinary events, the players behind them, and the tactics and protest frames they developed. Drawing on social movement theory, it traces the interaction between protest cycles, regime responses and broader structural changes over the past decade. Using theories of urban politics, space and power, it reflects on the exceptional state of non-sovereign politics that developed during the occupation of Tahrir Square.
Author : Jeroen Gunning
Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 369/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Why Occupy a Square? by : Jeroen Gunning
Download or read book Why Occupy a Square? written by Jeroen Gunning. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary moment? How did the protests come about? How were they able to outmaneuver the police? Was this really a 'leaderless revolution,' as so many pundits claimed, or were the demonstrations an outgrowth of the protest networks that had developed over the past decade? Why did so many people with no history of activism participate? What role did economic and systemic crises play in creating the conditions for these protests to occur? Was this really a Facebook revolution? Why Occupy a Square? is a dynamic exploration of the shape and timing of these extraordinary events, the players behind them, and the tactics and protest frames they developed. Drawing on social movement theory, it traces the interaction between protest cycles, regime responses and broader structural changes over the past decade. Using theories of urban politics, space and power, it reflects on the exceptional state of non-sovereign politics that developed during the occupation of Tahrir Square.
Author : Todd A. Comer
Release : 2015-10-05
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 464/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What Comes After Occupy? by : Todd A. Comer
Download or read book What Comes After Occupy? written by Todd A. Comer. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupy Wall Street, as centered in New York City, received much publicity. Little attention, however, has been granted to the hundreds of Occupy groups in marginal locations whose creative politics were certainly not limited by the influential example of Occupy in Zuccotti Park. This volume rectifies this oversight, with thirteen essays critically addressing the politics of occupation in places such as Indiana, Oregon, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Montana, and California. It initiates an interdisciplinary and critical discussion concerned with the importance of the ‘local’ to contemporary politics; the evolution of Occupy Wall Street tactics as they changed to fit differing, non-spectacular contexts; and what worked or did not work politically in various contexts. All of the above is designed to inform and improve that as-of-yet-unnamed movement which will come after Occupy. Boasting scholars from sociology, English, anthropology, peace studies, and history, the volume is divided into three major sections: Occupying the Local: Promise and Predicament; Occupying Space and Borders: South, East, and West; and Occupying the Media: Local, Regional, and National Dilemmas.
Author : A. Yalcintas
Release : 2015-02-03
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements by : A. Yalcintas
Download or read book Creativity and Humour in Occupy Movements written by A. Yalcintas. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue that these protests inspired musicians, film-makers, social scientists and other creative individuals, out of a concern for the aesthetics of the protests, rather than seizure of political power.
