Taking the Square: Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space
β Scribed by Maria Rovisco, Jonathan Corpus Ong
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 254
- Series
- Radical Subjects in International Politics
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Explores a rich variety of occupations of public space in order to explore new forms of public expression and modes of citizen participation.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: Street Politics, Occupations and Dissent
Chapter One: Identity, Place and Politics
Chapter Two: Occupying the Digital-Popular
Chapter Three: Place, Protest and Communciation
II: Democratic Struggles, New Publics and Mediated Protest
Chapter Four: Protest as Interruption of the Disaster Imaginary
Chapter Five: βWe Live in Publicβ
Chapter Six: The Relationship between Online and Offline Participation in a Social Movement
Chapter Seven: Mediating Movement in Occupied Spaces
III: The Performance of Protest
Chapter Eight: Performative Revolution in Egypt
Chapter Nine: Hybridity in Street Performance of Zulu and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans
Chapter Ten: Minority Groups and Strategies of Display and Dissent in Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Spaces
Index
Contributors
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