This article draws upon the insights of 75 Occupy activists from Toronto and across the
United States interviewed as part of the 3-year study 'Social Media in the Hands of Young …

This paper seeks an articulation between Marxist and anarchist approaches to
representation in social movements. A generalised dismissal of representational politics …

The problem of political organization to which Occupy supplies a provisional answer is that
of mobilizing and structuring opposition to capitalism. Anarchism's emphases on consensus …

This paper considers the politics of land occupation in Bangladesh. Contentious politics
have been conceptualised as 'societies in movement'by Raul Zibechi, defined through their …

In the United States, movements for transgender equality appear to have advanced with
astonishing speed in the new millennium. From policy reforms to public opinion trends …

Zusammenfassung Soziale Bewegungen sind Protestbewegungen, die innerhalb der
Gesellschaft diese als Ganzes, sie also aus ihr von innen heraus und gleichermaßen von …

In this chapter, we draw on global social movements as a critical lens for exploring the
democratic right to assembly and consensual decision making. Our discussion is framed …

This chapter, puts forward direct democracy as common ground for displacement-affected
communities to work toward a community of equals and engage in a politics of proximity …

Theatre of the oppressed (TO) emerged out of a rights-repressive context to challenge the
way cultural institutions are created and reproduced, and to enact alternative social and …

This article supplements the one-sided diet of spatial concepts, metaphors, and case studies
used by scholars to feed our thinking on how everyday people become collective political …