Book review: how Occupy activists fell in love with their own radical horizontalism and fetishized physical occupation

Hickel, Jason (2012) Book review: how Occupy activists fell in love with their own radical horizontalism and fetishized physical occupation. LSE Review of Books (28 Jul 2012). Website.

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In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by what many saw as the violent overreactions of the police. Occupy! is an unofficial record of the movement and combines first-hand accounts with reflections from activist academics and writers. Jason Hickel finds the book has excellent moments of insight but thought it could benefit from a more lengthy analysis. Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America. Astra Taylor and Keith Gessen (eds). Verso. 2011.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2012 09:11
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 18:32
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/46973

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