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.
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”
Wendy Brown, University of California Berkeley, Political Science: Occupy Wall Street: Return of a Repressed Res-Publica
Craig Calhoun, New York University, Sociology: “Evicting the Public: Why has occupying public space led to such heavy-handed repression”
William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, Political Science: “What is to Be Done”
Mike Davis, University of California Riverside, Creative Writing: “No More Bubble Gum”
Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith College, Political Science: “Claiming Division, Naming a Wrong”
Claude Fischer, University of California Berkeley, Sociology: “Occupy! Now What?”
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”
Richard Grusin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English: “Premediation and the Virtual Occupation of Wall Street”
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”
Michael Kennedy, Brown University, Sociology and International Studies: “Global Solidarity and the Occupy Movement”
Chris Herring (University of California Berkeley, Sociology) and Zoltan Gluck (City University of New York, Anthropology): “The Homeless Question of Occupy”
Mike King, University of California, Santa Cruz: The Vacancies of Capitalism: Occupations and the Fulfillment of Human Needs
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”
Terra Lawson-Remer, The New School, International Affairs: “#Occupy Democracy”
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”
John Protevi, Louisiana State University, French Studies: “Semantic, Pragmatic, and Affective Enactment at OWS”
Francesca Polletta, University of California Irvine, Sociology: “Maybe your better off not holding hands and singing We Shall Overcome”
David Ronfeldt, RAND Corporation: “What the Occupy Movement Means: Visions from Two Theories”
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 University, 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”
McKenzie Wark, The New School, Liberal Studies: “This Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit”
Slavoj Zizek: “Actual Politics”
OWS Series and Journal Issues
TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy Includes contributions by Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Theory & Event: Occupy Wall Street Supplement
Occupy the Future: Short opinion essays by Stanford faculty.
Possible Futures: A Project of the Social Science Research Council
Society and Space forum on The Occupy Movement.: Short opinion essays by the journal’s editorial board.
Lectures & Speeches: Scholars @ Occupy!
Michael Burawoy @ Occupy Cal: Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
Michael Burawoy & Claude Fischer on Occupy: Professors of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Reich @ Occupy Cal: Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.
David Harvey @ Occupy London: Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, The City University of New York.
Manuel Castells @ Occupy London: Professor of Sociology, Open University of Catalonia & Professor of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California.
Angela Davis @ Occupy Oakland: Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Cornel West @ Occupy Wall Street: Professor of the University in the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University.
Slavoj Zizek @ Occupy Wall Street: Global Distinguished Professor of German, New York University.
Judith Butler @ Occupy Wall Street: Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.
Helena Sheehan @ Occupy Dublin: Professor Emerita, Dublin City University.
Dispatches
Zoltan Gluck, City University of New York: Dear New York, Welcome to the Student Movement
Max Frasure, Yale University: Why I got Arrested at Occupy Wall Street
Abigail Andrews, University of California Berkeley: Occupy Oakland: Continue the Discussion
Research (Under Construction)
Benjamin Arditi, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM: Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan: The politics of vanishing mediators of the indignados in 2011
*If you have a link, essay, or work of research that you would like to contribute or connect to this forum please email the journal at [email protected]. Full-length articles may also be considered for inclusion in the Journal’s print edition on “The Popular.”: http://bjsonline.org/2011/06/call-for-papers/.
Essays on the site will explore a number of subjects related to:
- Comparisons: Historical and Global
- New trends in social movements
- Law enforcement and public order
- Urban governance and public space
- Strategies and tactics of protest
- Leadership at every level
- Response of the American public
- Media coverage of the movement
- The use of new media in social movements
- Occupy and the fight to defend public education
- The politics of financial crisis