Occupy Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18976155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaleh Mansoor (0000-0002-8747-7885, JALEH MANSOOR is an assistant professor in the Department of Art, Art History, Critical Curatorial Studies, and Theory at the University of British Columbia.), Daniel Marcus (DANIEL MARCUS is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of California, Berkeley.), Daniel L Marcus (University of California, Berkeley), Daniel Spaulding (0000-0001-9457-386X, DANIEL SPAULDING is a graduate student in the Department of Art History, Yale University.) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 142 |
| Pages | 48-50 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo_a_00122 |
| OpenAlex | W4238147962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Occupation as a revolutionary tactic has a long history, from the factory takeovers in post-World War I Italy, to the Sorbonne in May 1968, to Tahrir Square in 2011. The use of "Occupy" as a rallying cry is of more recent origin, however. In December 2008, students at the New School barricaded themselves inside a student center that had been slated for demolition, demanding the university president's resignation. In the aftermath of their eviction, "Occupy Everything" became the movement's slogan. The following autumn, students at the University of California schools amplified the call to Occupy, launching a spate of campus occupations and blockades in an attempt to forestall proposed tuition hikes and budget cuts. On walls and banners, the slogan "Occupy Everything, Demand Nothing" marked a break in the usual codes of student protest: faced with the dismantling of public education, students did not so much demand redress for specific grievances as seek to initiate a total transformation of the university, and of the student-administrator relationship. These struggles marked a transition away from a politics of visibility towards one of direct expropriation of space and resources, parting ways with the media-based activism of the previous decade
Anarchism and Radical Politics · Digital Education and Society · Materials Science · University Challenges and Reforms
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |