Table of Contents
1. Why Does Occupy Matter? Jenny Pickerill & John Krinsky 2. Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy Jackie Smith & Bob Glidden 3. How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles Justus Uitermark & Walter Nicholls 4. Tahrir, Here? The Influence of the Arab Uprisings on the Emergence of Occupy Sarah Kerton 5. The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street Ernesto Castañeda 6. Occupying the #Hotelmadrid: A Laboratory for Urban Resistance Jacobo Abellán, Jorge Sequera & Michael Janoschka 7. Already Occupied: Indigenous Peoples, Settler Colonialism and the Occupy Movements in North America Adam J. Barker 8. Whose Occupation? Homelessness and the Politics of Park Encampments Rebecca Schein 9. Collecting Occupy London: Public Collecting Institutions and Social Protest Movements in the 21st Century Jim Gledhill 10. Israel’s ‘Tent Protests’: The Chilling Effect of Nationalism Uri Gordon 11. The Homeless and Occupy El Paso: Creating Community among the 99% Curtis Smith, Ernesto Castañeda & Josiah Heyman 12. Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook Sarah Gaby & Neal Caren 13. Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement Sasha Costanza-Chock 14. The Free Culture and 15M Movements in Spain: Composition, Social Networks and Synergies Mayo Fuster Morell 15. Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement Max Liboiron 16. ‘Occupy Israel’: A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure Eitan Y. Alimi 17. The Students’ Rebellion in Chile: Occupy Protest or Classic Social Movement? Cesar Guzman-Concha 18. ‘Why don’t Italians Occupy?’ Hypotheses on a Failed Mobilisation Lorenzo Zamponi 19. Beyond the Network? Occupy London and the Global Movement Sam Halvorsen 20. Negotiating Power and Difference within the 99% Jeffrey S. Juris, Michelle Ronayne, Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle & Robert Wengronowitz Activist Interventions 21. Occupy—The End of the Affair Anonymous 22. Walking in the City of London Isabelle Köksal