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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Occupy Movement"”.
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No Stable Ground: Real Democracy in the Occupy Movement
… documents and analyses various aspects of the Occupy movement in Dublin and Cork in Ireland as well as the San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley) in the United States. The core focus of this investigation is Occupy’s direct democratic processes and dynamics both as a way …
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The best alternative? The use of alternative media in the occupy movement
… explores the use of alternative media among the Occupy social movement. A combination of factors, including emerging media technology and an antagonistic relationship with mainstream media has led many social movement actors to use alternative media to mobilize participation. The study looks into …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
Why was there such heated disagreement within the Occupy movement around the word nonviolence, and why was this disagreement so generationally marked? Why were the social movements in the 2011 global wave of unrest so suddenly disruptive, even violent, almost always involving riots? What does this …
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‘It’s Not a Protest, It’s a Process’: A Critical Analysis of State Power, Class Struggle, and the Occupy Movement
… emerge thereafter, would come to be known as the Occupy movement. This thesis offers an examination of the Occupy movement by way of considering this phenomenon through a neo-Marxist framework, concerning, in particular the matter of class struggle. The research contained within, offers a series …
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'Occupying' Anarchism and Discovering the Means for Social Justice: Interrogating the Anarchist Turn in 21st Century Social Movements
… the experiences of what it was like to join the Occupy movement"an anti-systemic movement that began in 2011"through an empirical analysis of learning about and practicing the anarchist(ic) characteristics of the movement"horizontal, non-hegemonic, affinity and consensus-based ways-of-being as a …
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Leadership, Leaderlessness and Leaderless Groups: The case of the Occupy London Movement
This thesis investigates how ‘leaderless’ social movements are coordinated and sustained by their members. Drawing on an empirical study of the London Occupy protests, it emphasises the socially-constructed nature of ‘leaderlessness’, arguing that the London Occupy movement can be understood as an …
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Studying Network Structural Changes Using Information Event Signatures
… statistics to analyze over 64 million Occupy movement tweets, this dissertation makes four essential contributions that enhance our understanding of the relationship between the flow of information and the dynamics of social networks. First, based on a large set of Twitter data related …
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HOW DO URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS EMERGE AND BRING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE: IS FOCUS E15 A REACTION TO AUSTERITY?
… Focus E15 campaign and use street activism and occupying space to challenge the policies of Newham Council. This group on first appearance can be seen to relate to the academic work of Mario Diani regarding new social movements. Focus E15 use urban space such as was used by the Occupy Movement …
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
… 2011 Arab Revolts, and the subsequent worldwide Occupy movement, social movement scholars faced sudden, powerful mass mobilisations without easily identifiable resources, networks, or forms of organisation underlying them. These instances of mobilisation beyond the scope of what we traditionally …
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Reclaiming the commons : art and activism in the neoliberal city
… and the emergence of the alterglobalization movement. In parts 4 and 5, I describe the conditions of the neoliberal city and examine a specific case study in East Baltimore. Part 6 introduces the concept of "the right to the city." Part 7 presents an overview of my own formation as an artist …
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New social movements and social networking sites' uses: Mexicans' mobilization for peace in Mexico
… the uprising in the Arab World, the Indignados movement in Spain, and the Occupy Movement in United States, were broadcast to the world through both the global mainstream and alternative media using many images and reports produced by people on the ground using internet, mobile phones, and …
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
… concrete political change, examples such as the Occupy movement reveal how political discourse is now intricately linked to the digital. In this dissertation, rather than simply reinforcing cyberutopian or cyberpessismistic views regarding the political impact of digital communication, I …
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Network Organization Paradigm
… proliferation and the diffusion rate of the Occupy Movement. We are motivated by a spontaneously formed NO as well as the quality of plasticity that enables the organization to change rapidly to describe an NO. Thus, we present a paradigm that serves as a reference model for organizations of …
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Sites of Passage: Art as Action in Egypt and the US-- Creating an Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, and Social Practice
… Arab Spring and the Egyptian revolution, the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the United States, the execution of Osama Bin Laden, and presidential elections in both the United States and Egypt. Sites of Passage, the final exhibition, ran from September 9, 2011-February 14, 2012 (extended) at …