Don’t Occupy This Movement: Thinking Law in Social Movements

Mulqueen, Tara; Tataryn, Anastasia

doi:10.1007/s10978-012-9103-z

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“…It is clear from our discussion that illegal activism eventually enabled legal transformation (Mulqueen and Tataryn 2012). We do not seek here to make a claim about simple causation: of course, broader context, social changes and unexpected events created favourable conditions.…”

Section: 'Becoming Legal' and The Process Of Transformative Illegalitymentioning

confidence: 94%

Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993

Enright

Cloatre

2018

Fem Leg Stud

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This paper examines Irish campaigns for condom access in the early 1990s. Against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, activists campaigned against a law which would not allow condoms to be sold from ordinary commercial spaces or vending machines, and restricted sale to young people. Advancing a conception of 'transformative illegality', we show that illegal action was fundamental to the eventual legalisation of commercial condom sale. However, rather than foregrounding illegal condom sale as a mode of spectacular direct action, we show that tactics of illegal sale in the 1990s built on 20 years of everyday illegal sale within the Irish family planning movement. Everyday illegal sale was a long-term world-making practice, which gradually transformed condoms' legal meanings, eventually enabling new forms of provocative and irreverent protest. Condoms 'became legal' when the state recognised modes of condom sale, gradually built up over many years and publicised in direct action and in the courts.

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Section: 'Becoming Legal' and The Process Of Transformative Illegalitymentioning

confidence: 94%

Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993

Enright

Cloatre

2018

Fem Leg Stud

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“…As has been pointed out within similar social movements and occupations, however, far from transcending the law entirely, such movements have a propensity to developing a 'law-like' ordering, immanent to the movement itself. As Mulqueen and Tataryn (2012) of 'citizenship', which attest to an alerted vision of the city, transcending both the legislative ambitions of formalised authority and the creative energies of the occupiers. It is at the edge of these atmospheres that the city might reveal itself as being a truly 'public' space, the creative product or oeuvre of its residents (Lefebvre 1996: 117).…”

Section: At the Edge Of An Atmospherementioning

confidence: 99%

“…As has been pointed out within similar social movements and occupations, however, far from transcending the law entirely, such movements have a propensity to developing a 'law-like' ordering, immanent to the movement itself. As Mulqueen and Tataryn (2012) have demonstrated in the context of the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, the movement itself generated its own normative code that aimed to deal with both procedural and substantive matters regarding the regulation of the site. In a similar way, an imminent form of ordering within the encampments of the Umbrella Movement was established, policing forms of behaviour, ordering the location of certain activities and so on.…”

Section: At the Edge Of An Atmospherementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a criminology of atmospheres: Law, affect and the codes of the street

Fraser

Matthews

2019

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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The street has a long and distinguished pedigree in criminology as a site of human sociability, transgression and spontaneity. Recent scholarship in legal studies has, however, explored the role that non-human actors play in the normative ordering of urban life. These interventions suggest the need for criminologists of the street to take seriously not only the experiential foreground of crime but also its background. In this article, we seek to bring these traditions into dialogue through engagement with the concept of ‘atmosphere’ – a place-based mood or spatialised feeling that blends human and non-human elements, and has the capacity to act in a quasi-agentic manner. Drawing on an experiment in ‘atmospheric methods’ conducted during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, in which some of the city’s central streets were occupied for 79 days, we seek to demonstrate that the analytics of ‘atmosphere’ offers a unique conceptual approach to urban life and street crime in the contemporary age.

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“…Each denies the central premises of the other and in contemporary contexts does so by mobilizing versions of science. One can presently witness this in the toxic narrative pervading global warming (Corbett and Durfee 2004;Hulme et al 1999) or embedded in the social scientific data mobilized by the "Occupy Movement" in highlighting the toxic consequences of the power of the 1% (Mulqueen and Tataryn 2012;Tormey 2012) The message in toxic discourse is of science and politics tied to morality (Buell 2001;Cafaro 2001). It is value added.…”

Section: Silent Springmentioning

confidence: 99%

RachelCarson's Toxic Discourse: Conjectures on Counterpublics, Stakeholders and the “Occupy Movement”

Wexler

2013

Business and Society Review

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This article draws attention to the origins, forms, and implications of "toxic discourse" as a genre central to the understanding of the public sphere in business in society. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is used as a pivotal cultural document establishing "toxic discourse" as an ongoing form of moral narrative rooted in the rationality of counterpublics. Toxic discourse is framed within a center/periphery model in which toxic discourse gains salience in periods of economic dislocation and uncertainty. In these periods, toxic discourse draws together those on the periphery or counterpublics who otherwise would not unite in their opposition to the center. The article critically examines how stakeholder theory, despite making sense of the public sphere for agents of organizations, glosses counterpublics and relegates toxic discourse, as evident in the "Occupy Movement," to the ephemeral role of temporary, disruptive protest groups with very little of substance to communicate.

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Don’t Occupy This Movement: Thinking Law in Social Movements

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993

Transformative Illegality: How Condoms ‘Became Legal’ in Ireland, 1991–1993

Towards a criminology of atmospheres: Law, affect and the codes of the street

RachelCarson's Toxic Discourse: Conjectures on Counterpublics, Stakeholders and the “Occupy Movement”

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