Critical Inquiry on the Occupy Movement
In the Moment, a blog published by the editors of the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, has been publishing essays on the Occupy movement by various scholars since mid-September 2011. The...
View ArticleSocial Text on Occupy Wall Street
Continuing a series of shout-outs to interdisciplinary journals hosting content related to the Occupy movement on their blogs, it is time to highlight the Social Text collective’s series, “Dispatches...
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Changing the Conversation?
Less than three months into the Occupy movement, its effects on public discourse are already being debated. Is Occupy changing “the conversation”—that is, the terms under which social and economic...
View ArticleOccupy, Organized Labor, and the Strike
In the latest issue of Jacobin, Seth Ackerman takes Joe Burns’ 2011 book, Reviving the Strike, as a prompt to reflect on the relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor in the United...
View ArticleLeft Forum on the Occupy Movement and Global Capitalism
Left Forum, the largest annual gathering of the left in North America, meets this March in New York under the theme “Occupy the System.” In preparation, the organizers of the Forum have interviewed...
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Beyond the Spectacle of Police Brutality
Reflecting on the January 28 actions in Oakland (and responding to a recent Chris Hedges column critical of “black bloc” tactics), Jeb Purucker reflects on the role of police brutality in sustaining...
View ArticleJournal for Occupied Studies
The first issue of the Journal for Occupied Studies is out. From the journal’s credo: The Journal for Occupied Studies is an independent contribution to the global Occupy movement, one which springs...
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Forum in The Nation
The Nation currently features a forum on the Occupy movement with contributions by Michael Moore, Frances Fox Piven, Bill Fletcher Jr., Marina Sitrin, and others. Contributors focus on the prospects...
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But is it a General Strike?
In light of the general strike called for today by the Occupy movement, Bhaskar Sunkara asks, “What is a general strike, anyway?”: A general strike has traditionally been defined as a work stoppage by...
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Social Science’s New Occupation
According to Jennifer Schuessler reporting in the New York Times, the Occupy movement has inspired numerous research projects in the social sciences. (No surprise to readers of Possible Futures.) As a...
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