Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland

Renee Guarriello Heath is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Portland and a scholar of community collaboration and democratic communication practices. C. Vail Fletcher is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Portland. She is a scholar that focuses on conflict and identity, international development and culture, and social media.Ricardo Munoz is a PhD student in communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a scholar of organizational communication with an emphasis on informal and non-hierarchical organizing.

• ForewordDavid OsbornIntroduction: Engaging Occupy: An Introduction to Romantic, Practical, and Critical PerspectivesRenee Guarriello Heath and C. Vail FletcherPart 1: Situating Occupy Globally: the Cultural and Economic ContextChapter 1: A Genealogy of Occupy within Transnational Contexts, and Communication ResearchPriya Kapoor Chapter 2: We are the 99 percent: Occupy and the Economics of DiscontentWilliam BarnesChapter 3: Neofuedalism and the Financial Crisis: Implications for Occupy Wall StreetMajia Holmer NadesanPart 2: Local Interpretations of Occupy PortlandChapter 4: Confessional Tales from the Field: Owning Researcher Methods and Positionality Renee Guarriello Heath, Ricardo V. Munoz, and C. Vail FletcherChapter 5: Finding the Space Between: Participative Democracy, Consensus Decision-Making and a Leaderful/less MovementRenee Guarriello HeathChapter 6: Globalization from Below: Discourses of Horizontalism, Direct Action, and ViolenceRicardo V. MunozChapter 7: (De) Colonization and Collective Identity: Intersections and Negotiations of Gender, Race, and Class in OccupyC. Vail FletcherPart 3: Re(presentations) and Revelations: Occupy MediatedChapter 8: Violence, Bias, or Fair Journalism? Understanding Portland Media Coverage of an Episodic Protest Jennette Lovejoy and Keeler BryntesonChapter 9: An “Official” Account: Delivering Occupy Portland’s Eviction Notice erin daina mcclellan Chapter 10: Interconnected Discontent: Social Media and Social Capital in the Occupy MovementDoug Tewksbury

Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland is strongest in chapters where contributors closely follow the contours of Occupy Portland to deliver ethnography-derived insight into the Occupy movement and the immediate environment within which it operated. . . .For communication, political science, or social movement scholars or students, as for those who are now continuing Occupy’s work in other arenas, Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland presents a useful sociological description of Occupy Portland and its communication and consensus-building successes, as well as a cogent analysis of some of the rewards and challenges that accompany Occupy’s participatory, leaderless model of social movement organizing.