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Occupying Political Science

The Occupy Wall Street Movement from New York to the World

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  • © 2013

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  1. Emily Welty
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  2. Matthew Bolton
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  3. Meghana Nayak
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  4. Christopher Malone
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Matthew Bolton, Emily Welty, Meghana Nayak, Christopher Malone
    Pages 1-24

  3. Occupy Wall Street as a Palimpsest: Overview of a Dynamic Movement

    • Emily Welty, Matthew Bolton, Nick Zukowski
    Pages 25-57

  4. Demands Belong to the 99%? The Conflict over Demands, Issues, and Goals in OWS

    • Susan Kang
    Pages 59-88

  5. The Art of Nonviolence: The Adaptations and Improvisations of Occupy Wall Street

    • Emily Welty
    Pages 89-116

  6. The FLO Consensus

    • Devin Balkind
    Pages 117-134

  7. This Space Is Occupied!: The Politics of Occupy Wall Street’s Expeditionary Architecture and De-gentrifying Urbanism

    • Matthew Bolton, Stephen Froese, Alex Jeffrey
    Pages 135-161

  8. barricades dot net: Post-Fordist Policing in Occupied New York City

    • Matthew Bolton, Victoria Measles
    Pages 163-190

  9. OWS and US Electoral Politics: An Early Critical Assessment

    • Christopher Malone, Violet Fredericks
    Pages 191-223

  10. The Anti-Globalization Movement and OWS

    • Ron Hayduk
    Pages 225-245

  11. The Politics of the “Global”

    • Meghana Nayak
    Pages 247-274

  12. An Occupied Political Science: Concluding Reflections on Downtown Political Thinking

    • Christopher Malone, Matthew Bolton, Meghana Nayak, Emily Welty
    Pages 275-282

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 283-297
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Occupying Political Science is a collection of critical essays by New York based scholars, researchers, and activists, which takes an unconventional look at the Occupy Wall Street movement through concepts found in the field of political science. Both normative and descriptive in its approach, Occupying Political Science seeks to understand not only the origins, logic, and prospects of the OWS movement, but also its effect on political institutions, activism, and the very way we analyze power. It does so by asking questions such as: How does OWS make us rethink the discipline of political science, and how might the political science discipline offer ways to understand and illuminate aspects of OWS? How does social location influence OWS, our efforts to understand it, and the social science that we do? Through addressing topics including social movements and non-violent resistance, surveillance and means of social control, electoral arrangements, new social media and technology, and global connections, the authors offer a unique approach that takes seriously the implications of their physical, social and disciplinary location, in New York, both in relation to Occupy Wall Street, and in their role as scholars in political science.

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"Occupying Political Science is provocative, thoughtful and well-informed. Best of all, it is a pleasure to read!" Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and author of Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven, the Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate.

"This cleverly conceived and carefully curated volume will be welcomed by those interested in Occupy and social movements as well as scholars of 'civic culture,' citizenship, social justice, governmentality, and those interested in how passionate individuals struggle to join and work together as collectivities to realize their common hopes, dreams, and desires. Along with recent works by Wood, Sitrin, and Khasnabish and Haiven, this is destined to be a crucial text in the emergent activist social science literature.' Eric Selbin, Professor of Political Science & University Scholar, Southwestern University

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Susan Kang, Nick Zukowski, Devin Balkind, Stephen Froese, Alex Jeffrey, Victoria Measles, Violet Fredericks, Ron Hayduk

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