Source: InterOccupy.net
Cultural Anthropology has just launched its sixth Hot Spot — Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings. The collection is guest edited by Jeffrey S. Juris and Maple Razsa, and includes 20 essays from ethnographers and activists around the world.
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Jeffrey S. Juris and Maple Razsa, Introduction: Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings
Prefigurative Politics
Marianne Maeckelbergh, Horizontal Decision-Making across Time and Place
Chris Garces, People’s Mic and “Leaderful” Charisma
Philip Cartelli, Trying to Occupy Harvard
Public Space
Zoltan Gluck, Between Wall Street and Zuccotti: Occupy and the Scale of Politics
Carles Feixa, et al., The #spanishrevolution and Beyond
Dimitris Dalakoglou, The Movement and the “Movement†of Syntagma Square
Experience and Subjectivity
Jeffrey S. Juris, The 99% and the Production of Insurgent Subjectivity
Diane Nelson, et al., Her earliest leaf’s a flower…
Maple Razsa, The Subjective Turn: The Radicalization of Personal Experience within Occupy Slovenia
Marina Sitrin, Occupy Trust: The Role of Emotion in the New Movements
Strategy and Tactics
David Graeber, Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination
Kate Griffiths-Dingani, May Day, Precarity, Affective Labor, and the General Strike
Angelique Haugerud, Humor and Occupy Wall Street
Karen Ho, Occupy Finance and the Paradox/Possibilities of Productivity
Social Media
Alice Mattoni, Beyond Celebration: Toward a More Nuanced Assessment of Facebook’s Role in Occupy Wall Street
John Postill, Participatory Media Research and Spain’s 15M Movement
Critical Perspectives
Yvonne Yen Liu, Decolonizing the Occupy Movement
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Fieldnotes on Union Square, Anti-Oppression, and Occupy
Uri Gordon, Israel’s “Tent Protests”: A Domesticated Mobilization
Alex Khasnabish, Occupy Nova Scotia: The Symbolism and Politics of Space
View previous Hot Spot collections at Cultural Anthropology Online.