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Occupying London - Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility (Paperback)
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Occupying London - Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean
there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing
change in the face of global resistances and movements which
followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8? Based on ethnographic
research with the Occupy movement in London - as a case study of
one post-crash attempt to bring alternatives about - this book
argues that change was ultimately foreclosed by widespread 'common
sense' limitations of what was considered possible after the crash.
Offering a critically constructive analysis of the Occupy movement
in London and incorporating both activist praise and self-criticism
of their movement, Occupying London discusses both the political
potential suggested by the occupation of space and the slogan 'we
are the 99%', as well as the problematic extension of post-crash
normativity into the movement through issues of organisation,
repetitions of wider norms, and an inadvertent acceptance of wider
distributions of possibility. Such positives and negatives are
shown to have played out in a wide-range of arenas: from the
occupation of space itself, through attempts to organise collective
appearance and voice, as well as 'authentic' constructions of
resistance and 'cynical' framings of power. The author's intention
is to provoke thought on behalf of any 'half-fascinated,
half-devastated witnesses' of the financial crash and the political
disappointments which followed. It is argued that such movements
possess the potential to bring about progressive change, but only
if they intervene into wider distributions of 'common sense' by
embracing collective symbolic efficiency and avoiding binary
framings of 'authentic' resistance vs. 'hidden' power.
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