Overview
- Analyses the movement beyond the occupation itself and addresses the aftermath
- Offers insights and lessons learned in organising for future generations
- Based on primary sources including video and audio recordings, meeting minutes, and collective documents
Part of the book series: Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias (AFCPAU)
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This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS, few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of footage from the OWS Media Working Group archive. In doing so, she reveals how the movement was organized in practice, which experiments were most successful, and what future generations can learn.
Reviews
“As an author, filmmaker, and organizer, no one is better positioned to unravel the inner workings and historical significance of the Occupy Movement than the indefatigable Marisa Holmes. She brings her firsthand experience traversing the pathways of recent global movements–from Egypt to New York to Spain to Charlottesville–to bear on her razor sharp analysis of struggle in this definitive study.” (Mark Bray, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University)
“'This is Just Practice' is movement history at its best: meticulous, direct, and expansive in revolutionary scope. Providing a crucial corrective to all too many reductive Occupy narratives, Holmes emphasizes the movement's context in international struggles and centers it's all-too-overlooked form as a horizontalist, richly lived radical experiment. This is the Occupy we need to remember; these are the practices we must carry forward.” (Natasha Lennard, Author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life)
“More than a decade later, what happened at Occupy Wall Street still matters, and Marisa Holmes explains why. Democracy was not in retreat in 2011 like it so often is today, but advancing though courageous experiments in the streets. That moment and its meaning have never been so vividly described as here.” (Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder)
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Book Title: Organizing Occupy Wall Street
Book Subtitle: This is Just Practice
Authors: Marisa Holmes
Series Title: Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8947-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8946-9Published: 09 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-8949-0Due: 09 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-8947-6Published: 08 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-7063
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7071
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 335
Topics: Human Geography, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Anthropology, Political Sociology, Political Science, Urban Studies/Sociology