Two Occupys: The New Global Language of Protest

Perlin, Ross

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“…Influenced by the Occupy movement and previous 'color' revolutions, the Umbrella Movement again may be portrayed as showing the dualedge identity apparently salient in many of the 21 st century mobilisations so far mentioned: one oppositional, aimed at pressuring the authorities to respect the promise of universal suffrage, the other as a secessionist challenge to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. In this regard, the movement integrates multiple and often divergent facets, as well as many possibilities in terms of outcome: from liberal democratic reforms and the spread of cosmopolitan values, to nationalist, linguistic and even class-based tensions (Perlin 2015).…”

Section: Protest Social Movements and Global Democracymentioning

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Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy since 2011: New Perspectives

Davies¹,

Ryan²,

Peña³

2016

Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives

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Introducing the special issue on global protest and democracy since 2011, this article surveys the key dimensions of the debate. It provides a critical overview of significant protest events in the post-2011 period and explores a range of the analytical tools that may be used to understand them, before proceeding to identify, disaggregate and draw into question some of the major claims which have emerged in literature on the post-2011 mobilizations. The articles contained within this volume are then outlined, revealing the novel and nuanced insights provided by the contributors with respect to the post-2011 protests' composition, mobilization forms, frames, democratic practices, and interrelationships with other actors in pursuit of democratic reform. The article concludes with a discussion of the opportunities for further research into protest and democracy.

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Section: Protest Social Movements and Global Democracymentioning

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Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy since 2011: New Perspectives

Davies¹,

Ryan²,

Peña³

2016

Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy Since 2011: New Perspectives

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“…As Ross Perlin perceptively notes, the Occupy Central protesters, while calling for democracy, were also "… busily crystallizing a distinctive Hong Kong identity-grounded in Cantonese but hybrid in its history and culture, developing now from deeply felt differences with the mainland." 23 Occupy Central was local, with implications for all of China.…”

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Occupy Central: Towards A Geography of Presence

Irons¹

2016

IAFOR J Cult Stud

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Occupy Central was a 79-day experiment in urban identity. Occupy-the Umbrella Revolution of 2014-rearranged space on the streets of Hong Kong. This rearranging suggests a geography of presence. Such a geography will explain how spaces of transit become spaces of meaning, how impersonal landscapes become imbued with memory. This paper takes up the warring ideologies-the accommodating and the discontented-as well as the range of lived experiences the erupted during Occupy. It connects the events of Occupy to Hong Kong's core identity: its Chineseness, its status as a world city, and its postcolonial legacy. On the political level Occupy seemed doomed to fail. Yet on the level of signification it subverted an urban landscape through a reimagining of presence.

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“…In the last few years alone, the world has seen important social protest and social movement organizations form almost overnight in Tunisia; Madrid; Madison, Wisconsin; Tel Aviv; Cairo; Ferguson, Missouri; and Zuccotti Park, New York City, to mention a few of the most prominent. Zuccotti Park in particular has inspired a huge number of OCCUPY memes around the world, many embodying the “horizontalism” idea (Perlin ) which has much in common with the “collectivist‐democracy” ideal type (Rothschild‐Whitt 1979). Beginning in 2001, the World Social Forum (WSF) was organized in Porto Alegre, Brazil for democratic dialogue and mutual education of activists.…”

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The Logic of A Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity, and Common Purpose

Rothschild

2016

The Sociological Quarterly

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Over the past 30 years, the collectivist-democratic form of organization has presented a growing alternative to the bureaucratic form, and it has proliferated, here and around the world. This form is manifest, for example, within micro-credit groups, workers' co-operatives, nongovernmental organizations, advocacy groups, self-help groups, community and municipal initiatives, social movement organizations, and in many nonprofit groups in general. It is most visible in the civil society sector, but demands for deeper participation are also evident in communities and cities, and the search for more involving and less bureaucratic structures has spread into many for-profit firms as well. Building on research on this form of organization, this article develops a model of the decisional processes utilized in such organizations and contrasts these "Democracy 2.0" standards for decision making from the Democracy 1.0 (representative and formal) standards that previously prevailed. Drawing on a new generation of research on these sorts of organizations, this article and this special section discuss: (a) how consensus decisional processes are being made more efficient; (b) how such organizations are now able to scale to fairly large size while still retaining their local and participatory basis; (c) how such organizations are cultivating a more diverse membership and using such diversity to build more democratic forms of governance; (d) how such organizations are combatting ethnoracial and gender inequalities that prevail in the surrounding society; and (e) how emotions are getting infused into the public conversations within these organizations and communities.

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Two Occupys: The New Global Language of Protest

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Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy since 2011: New Perspectives

Protest, Social Movements and Global Democracy since 2011: New Perspectives

Occupy Central: Towards A Geography of Presence

The Logic of A Co-Operative Economy and Democracy 2.0: Recovering the Possibilities for Autonomy, Creativity, Solidarity, and Common Purpose

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