“…In some locations, activists stuck with their existing ideological commitments rather than coming together to camp (Zamponi, 2012), while in others, conversely, campers were isolated from existing associational networks (Uitermark and Nicholls, 2012). Finally, Occupiers are charged with fetishizing camps as ends in themselves rather than appealing to the media or citizenry (Desbos and Royall, 2016;Chabanet and Royall, 2015). Taken together, this work indicates the need to pay attention to weaker, less studied mobilizations, and to both external and internal factors, when thinking about why camps closed -both points strongly endorsed in Davenport's (2015) study of movement death in other contexts -as well as to the importance of place-specific dynamics in shaping the trajectory of mobilization (Roth, 2017) However, it is problematic to frame the closure of Occupy camps, or the end of movements more generally, as 'failure' or 'death'.…”