Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
If Occupy Wall Street focused attention on the transnational resistance to the imaginaries and practices of neo-liberalization, the networked protests, collectively identified as #Occupy each emerged out of particular places, contexts and histories of contestation. This paper examines the significance in one urban region, the San Francisco Bay, and especially the intersection between #Occupy and longer-term residual urban social movements. Understanding neo-liberalization as a dynamic process, I begin by mapping the vectors of contention in the regional imposition of the neo-liberal project, and especially the sectors of housing, employment, education and media representation. I then analyse the intersection of the #Occupy moment, between two different politics – the direct action and militant commons, and the longer-term subaltern counter-spheres of the residual organizations. I then identify the impact on the dynamics of mobilization and intervention, and especially the imaginaries and practices of urban space, inclusion, and knowledge production.
Recommended Citation
Kidd, D. (2013) #Occupy in the San Francisco Bay. In N. Duxbury (Ed.), Rethinking urban inclusion: Spaces, mobilisations, interventions. Cescontexto - Debates, no. 2 (pp. 312-326). Coimbra, Portugal: Center for Economic Studies, University of Coimbra.
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Comments
This work is a chapter in N. Duxbury (Ed.), Rethinking urban inclusion: Spaces, mobilisations, interventions. Cescontexto - Debates, no. 2 (pp. 312-326). Coimbra, Portugal: Center for Economic Studies, University of Coimbra. http://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/cescontexto/ficheiros/cescontexto_debates_ii.pdf