Occupy London as pre-figurative political action

Howard, Neil; Pratt-Boyden, Keira

doi:10.1080/09614524.2013.801935

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“…Division of labor and specialization became important for them over time, and to be able to function in the long term, fundraising activities and a paid labor force were implemented. This is a well‐known pattern: Howard and Pratt‐Boyden (), who studied Occupy London, described how, over time, hierarchies occur within social movements, manifesting in “the emergence of stratification within a movement and submittance of the collective to hierarchy which is entrusted upon specific individuals” (Howard & Pratt‐Boyden, , p. 739).…”

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A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

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This article seeks to expand knowledge about spontaneous volunteering in Amsterdam during the European refugee crisis in the winter of 2015–16. As formal institutions, which relied on a top–down command and control approach, were unable to handle the relatively large number of refugees who arrived in a short period of time, grassroots social movements based on bottom–up participation emerged. Grassroots volunteers were not only politically engaged, protesting against the strict refugee reception policy, but they also became involved in the crisis response, showing a great deal of flexibility. Although the social movements struggled with their organizational structures, they were able to adapt their missions and structures to changing circumstances. To achieve a resilience‐based response to future refugee influxes, this article advocates for formal response organizations to dismantle their static, top–down approach, and for social movements to find a balance between participation and professionalism. If institutionalized refugee response organizations adapt to the dynamics of local conditions, they could create the conditions for resilient solutions in the crisis context.

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A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

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“…The concept of pre-figurative politics has been discussed by Graeber (2002). It has also been directly applied as a concept to analyze the Occupy movement by Howard and Pratt-Boyden (2013). 12.…”

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The containment of Occupy: militarized police forces and social control in America

Morgan

2014

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The spread of the Occupy movement across the globe has reinvigorated the political, expanding the horizon of possibility after over thirty years of closure imposed by neoliberalism. While a literature which analyzes the interlinking nature of these social movements across the world is emerging, the response to them by powerful public and private actors is less examined. This paper focuses upon the attempt by domestic authorities in the United States to curtail these struggles. Applying the work of Nicos Poulantzas on authoritarian statism it examines how private and public actors have worked together to contain the recent surge of protest. Specific attention is paid to the harsh response of police forces to the Occupy protests, which is analyzed in the context of the growing militarization of American police that has been underway since the declaration of the War on Drugs in 1971.

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“…The conscious or unconscious bargaining process by the relatively power-poor is in part consequential of the coercive state-corporate stratagem. There is both individual and collective fear of state-corporate action, often very violent action, towards the Occupy movement (see : Howard & Pratt-Boyden, 2013;Taylor, 2011 Generally speaking what happened was the organic development of those who were dependent chemically just keeping themselves out of the lime light a bit when necessary and you know, at the end of the day you have got to consider that they were in the public eye and if they were using hard drugs they needed to bloody well hide because the cops were there all the bloody time, so they were not just protecting Occupy but protecting themselves.…”

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Negotiating the Resistance

Fletcher¹

2015

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In the post 2008 financial crisis climate we have seen a plethora of protest movements emerge globally with one of the most recognisable, particularly in the western context, being that of the Occupy movement, which sought to contest the global accumulation of wealth by the few, at the expense of the many. Such protest movements have paved the way for old and new, often contentious, dialogues pertinent for a variety of disciplines and subject matters. Drawing upon both emerging narratives from the movement within the published literature and the authors own empirical interview data with participants at a variety of Occupy sites, this article discusses to what extent the Occupy movement negotiates its existence with the hegemonic state-corporate nexus through its Safer Spaces Policy. The paper concludes that the counter-hegemonic endeavours of resistance movements can be compromised, through the coercion and consent strategies of the powerful working in tandem, resulting in a movement that both opposes and emulates what it seeks to contest. Such discussion can ultimately contribute to the longevous discourses pertaining to how hegemonic power operates not just on but through people.

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Occupy London as pre-figurative political action

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

A port in a storm: Spontaneous volunteering and grassroots movements in Amsterdam. A resilient approach to the (European) refugee crisis

The containment of Occupy: militarized police forces and social control in America

Negotiating the Resistance

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