ISBN:
9781498548434
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (335 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Occupy movement-United States..
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Social movements-United States..
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Marxian school of sociology
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Marxian school of sociology
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Occupy movement-United States
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Social movements-United States
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Abstract:
This book is a critical, participant observation study of the Philadelphia branch of the Occupy Wall Street social movement. It uses a revisionist Marxist framework, informed by critical theory, to understand and explain the organization and activities of this protest group.
Abstract:
Cover -- Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement -- Searching for Marx in the Occupy Movement -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Marxism and Social Movements -- Reconstructed Marxism And Post-marxism -- Marxism And New Social Movements -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Marxism and the Occupy Movement -- Dialectics And Materialism -- Sites Of Contradiction: The Disembedded Self And The Institutional Absorption Of The Value Conflict -- Instrumentalities, Interests, And Needs -- Summary -- Some Last Thoughts -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Overview of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia -- Recruitment -- Material Resources -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Occupying Context -- Marketization And Rationalization -- The Security State Apparatus -- Political Opportunity Structures -- Globalization -- The Internet And Social Media -- Postindustrialization -- Capitalist Society As The Macro Context -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- The Proximate Context -- The Financial Crisis Of 2009 -- The Alter-globalization Movement And International Issues -- Labor Unions -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Organizational Structures, Hierarchies and Power, Autonomy and Authenticities in the Occupy Movement -- Organizational Dilemmas -- Identity Thinking And Authenticity, Autonomy, And Horizontalism -- Social Media: Part One -- Social Media: Part Two -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Ideologies and the Conflicts of Humanism and Rationality -- Ideology -- Tropic Occupy -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Schisms Part One -- The Nature Of Schisms -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Schisms Part Two -- Immanence, Identity, And Ideology -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Relations with the Outside -- City Government -- The Police -- Labor Unions -- Religious Groups -- Students And The Intelligentsia -- Moral Resources And Public Support -- Notes -- Chapter 11 -- The Many Faces of Framing -- The News Media And Occupy.
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