Beyond the Network? Occupy London and the Global Movement

Halvorsen, Sam

doi:10.1080/14742837.2012.708835

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“…For example, Pickerill and Chatterton (:736) note about autonomous movements that “squatting a building leads to a greater awareness of national‐global property speculation … a local campaign against school closure can unravel global agreements on privatization and tradable services … [enabling] the building of extra‐local solidarity and resistance”. Halvorson (:431) argues that the Occupy movement “is thus an important reminder that alternative imaginations for other worlds need territories as much as the connections across space”, while Chatterton et al (:614) show how diverse interests converged at the Copenhagen climate talks to “oppose dominant responses to climate change and practice solidaristic alternatives which develop a broader critique of the forces at play shaping localities”. Despite these excellent analyses of solidarity building, scholars have yet to engage directly with more conservative political ideologies as part of the solidarity project.…”

Section: Toward a Situated Solidarity: Perspectives On The Inclusive mentioning

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Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio‐Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia

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Burke

2017

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It is increasingly recognized that socio-environmental justice will not be achieved through liberal and cosmopolitical forms of activism alone. Instead, more diverse and inclusive solidarities must be achieved across political ideologies for transformative change. By engaging with one constituency often overlooked by mainstream environmentalists-rural, conservative Americans-we argue for a situated solidarity that can be forged among people whose views of nature, community, and politics differ significantly. This framework rejects totalizing expressions of global ambition that erase important place-based differences. To explore this ethic, we examine a localized anti-fracking campaign in western North Carolina to determine how placebased forms of environmental resistance can be brought in closer connection with the cosmopolitical movement for climate and energy justice. This requires that cosmopolitical movements make room for more customary forms of cultural politics, while conservative movements look beyond their own place-based struggles to resist mutually experienced forms of oppression. Resumen: Es cada día más evidente que la justicia socioambiental no se logrará exclusivamente a través de formas de movilización liberales y cosmopolíticas. De lo contrario, el cambio transformativo requiere de solidaridades diversas e inclusivas que trascienden las ideologías políticas. Basado en nuestra colaboración-investigación con una población sobrepasado por ambientalistas convencionales-estadounidenses rurales y conservadores-proponemos una "solidaridad localizada" que se puede forjar entre poblaciones con distintos conceptos de naturaleza, comunidad, y política. Este marco rechaza a las expresiones universalizadores que borran de las idiosincrasias producidas por arraigarse en un lugar. Para explorar dicha ética de solidaridad, investigamos una campaña contra el fracking (la fracturación hidráulica) en el oeste de Carolina del Norte, para así determinar como las formas localizadas de resistencia ambiental se pueden acercar a los movimientos cosmopolíticos para la justicia climática y de energía. Concluimos que este acercamiento require que los movimientos cosmopolíticos se abren a distintos costumbres y culturas políticas, mientras que los movimientos conservadores miran más allá de sus luchas locales para resistir opresiones comunes.

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Section: Toward a Situated Solidarity: Perspectives On The Inclusive mentioning

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Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio‐Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia

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2017

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“…To do so would be to disregard the distinctly plural sensibilities that co‐constituted the movement, and to underemphasise the role played by religion in co‐producing the spaces, events and emergent subjectivities of the camps. Yet many existing academic accounts of the Occupy movement downplay the importance of religion even within an emphasis on the spatiality of the occupations (see, for example, Halvorsen ; Pickerill and Krinsky ; Sparke ). We want to argue, however, that the presence of religious spaces, discourses and actors became an active constituent in the emerging discourse, praxis and character of Occupy encampments, albeit in different locally contextualised ways.…”

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Postsecularity, Political Resistance, and Protest in the Occupy Movement

2015

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This paper examines and critically interprets the interrelations between religion and the Occupy movements of 2011. It presents three main arguments. First, through an examination of the Occupy Movement in the UK and USA—and in particular of the two most prominent Occupy camps (Wall Street and London Stock Exchange)—the paper traces the emergence of postsecularity evidenced in the rapprochement of religious and secular actors, discourses, and practices in the event‐spaces of Occupy. Second, it examines the specific set of challenges that Occupy has posed to the Christian church in the UK and USA, arguing that religious participation in the camps served at least in part to identify wider areas of religious faith that are themselves in need of redemption. Third, the paper considers the challenges posed by religious groups to Occupy, not least in the emphasis on postmaterial values in pathways to resistance against contemporary capitalism.

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“…Taking Occupy as an example, Halvorsen (2012) argues that the movement did not establish global convergence spaces where central nodes for a transnational network emerged, as it was the case for the alter-globalization movement that was largely organized around events such as the world social forum and G8 or G20 meetings. No such attempts have been made within Occupy, except for the alternative day of action on human rights day (10 December 2011).…”

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“…The relational logic establishes consequently a different kind of hierarchy namely between central and peripheral nodes, the ones being visible and the ones being invisible, while downplaying the character and activities constituting a node as such (Halvorsen 2012).…”

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When Narratives Travel: The Occupy Movement in Latvia and Sweden

Kaun¹

2015

Civic Engagement and Social Media

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Beyond the Network? Occupy London and the Global Movement

Cited by 52 publications

References 11 publications

Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio‐Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia

Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio‐Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia

Postsecularity, Political Resistance, and Protest in the Occupy Movement

When Narratives Travel: The Occupy Movement in Latvia and Sweden

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