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Understanding the Occupy Movement: Perspectives from the Social Sciences

This forum is designed to bring together essays, critical commentary,
and eventually research of social scientists on the Occupy Movement.
As analyses and ?spin? of Occupations grow, we confront the sort of
public issue to which a social science response is urgently needed.
Accordingly, the BJS has organized this forum addressing the
underlying social, political, and economic issues surrounding Occupy
and its broader implications.
http://bjsonline.org/2011/12/understanding-the-occupy-movement-perspectives-from-the-social-sciences/


Essays and Analysis

Jason Adams, Williams College, Political Science:
?Occupy Time?

Emily Brissette, University of California Berkeley, Sociology:
?For the Fracture of Good Order: On ?Violence? at Occupy Oakland?

Craig Calhoun, New York University, Sociology:
?Evicting the Public: Why has occupying public space led to such
heavy-handed repression?

Mike Davis, University of California Riverside, Creative Writing:
?No More Bubble Gum?

Gaston Gordillo, University of British Columbia, Anthropology:
?The Human Chain as a Non-Violent Weapon?

David Graeber, Goldsmiths University of London, Anthropology:
?Occupy Wall Streets Anarchist Roots?

Claude Fischer, University of California Berkeley, Sociology:
?Occupy! Now What??

Michael Hardt (Duke University, Literature) and Antonio Negri
(European Graduate School):
?The Fight for ?Real Democracy? at the Heart of Occupy Wall Street?

David Harvey, The City University of New York, Anthropology:
?The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis?

Chris Herring (University of California Berkeley, Sociology) and
Zoltan Gluck (City University of New York, Anthropology):
?The Homeless Question of Occupy?

Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City, Sociology:
?Fear of a Slacker Revolution: Occupy Wall Street and the cultural
politics of class struggle?

George Lakoff, University of California Berkeley, Linguistics:
?How Occupy Wall Street?s Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous
Conservative Worldview?

Peter Marcuse, Columbia University, Urban Planning:
?Occupy and the Provision of Public Space: The City?s Responsibilities?

Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University, Media, Culture and Communication:
?Occupy Theory?

Adrian Pabst, University of Kent, Politics:
?The Resurgence of the Civic?

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, Sociology:
?The Global Street Comes to Wall Street?

Jen Schradie, University of California Berkeley, Sociology:
?Why Tents Still Matter?

Sidney Tarrow, Cornell, Government:
?Why Occupy Wall Street is not the Tea Party of the Left?

Alex Vitale, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Sociology:
?NYPD and OWS: A Clash of Styles?

Society and Space forum on The Occupy Movement.

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