ISBN:
9781643363189
,
9781643363172
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 211 Seiten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Movement rhetoric/rhetoric's movement
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Occupy-Bewegung
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USA
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Occupy movement / United States / History / 21st century
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Rhetoric / Political aspects / United States / History / 21st century
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Protest movements / United States / History / 21st century
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Social movements / United States / History / 21st century
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Mouvement des indignés / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle
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Discours politique / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle
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Contestation / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle
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Mouvements sociaux / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Wages & Compensation
;
Occupy movement
;
Protest movements
;
Rhetoric / Political aspects
;
Social movements
;
United States
;
2000-2099
;
History
;
USA
;
Occupy-Bewegung
Abstract:
"First book in the Movement Rhetoric/Rhetoric's Movements series! September 17, 2021, marked the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Headlines this week have included "Was Occupy Wall Street the 'Beginning of the Beginning'?" (NY Times), "Occupy Wall Street Won the Future" (WSJ, opinion), "Lessons from Occupy Wall Street for today's tax fight" (The Hill), "Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think (The Atlantic). In The Democracy Ethos: Authenticity and Instrumentalism in US Movement Rhetoric after Occupy, A. Freya Thimsen asks the question implicit in these headlines: ten years later, what were the lasting impacts of Occupy? If it is evaluated solely in terms of specific, near-term policy outcomes, it cannot help but be found wanting.
Abstract:
But the longer view, Thimsen argues, suggests that the democratic ethos consolidated and disseminated by the Occupy demonstrations plays an important role in the way that more mainstream US pro-democracy advocacy groups disclose their practices of self-organization in order to prove their commitment to democracy. The democratic ethos, she says, is a flexible, repeatable set of rhetorical tactics. The book begins by contrasting the democratic ethos drawing on Left radicalism and liberal instrumentalism that was consolidated in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations of 2011, and the "ironic instrumentalism" of the "Democracy Vouchers" used in the 2017 Seattle municiple elections--a pro-democracy strategy to reform campaign finance enacted through the undemocratic means of large private donations.
Abstract:
In subsequent chapters, Thimsen shows how the democratic ethos born from Occupy has been adapted by collective actors working in the existing political system--in the contexts of amending the Constitution, Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign, and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's work to provide legal aid to municipalities fighting corporate incursion. While Occupy began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, its long-term importance rests in how its performative techniques have been folded into more common, less "interruptive" forms of politics. It changed what "counts" as credibly democratic and how democracy is performed, with impacts visible in the current Movement for Black Lives, immigrants' rights activism, and political campaigns"--
