Occupy! A global movement

Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan and Brian Doherty were the editors of the journal Social Movement Studies during the height of the Occupy! protests. An international and cross-disciplinary collective they were uniquely placed to collate and edit this volume.

• 1. Why Does Occupy Matter? 2. Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy 3. How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles 4. Tahrir, Here? The Influence of the Arab Uprisings on the Emergence of Occupy 5. The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street 6. Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance 7. Already Occupied: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism and the Occupy Movements in North America 8. Whose Occupation? Homelessness and the Politics of Park Encampments 9. Collecting Occupy London: Public Collecting Institutions and Social Protest Movements in the 21st Century 10. Israel’s ‘Tent Protests’: The Chilling Effect of Nationalism 11. The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99% 12. Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook 13. Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement 14. The Free Culture and 15M Movements in Spain: Composition, Social Networks and Synergies 15. Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement 16. ‘Occupy Israel’: A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure 17. The Students’ Rebellion in Chile: Occupy Protest or Classic Social Movement? 18. ‘Why don’t Italians Occupy?’ Hypotheses on a Failed Mobilisation 19. Beyond the Network? Occupy London and the Global Movement 20. Negotiating Power and Difference within the 99% Activist Interventions 21. Occupy—The End of the Affair 22. Walking in the City of London