Paris, Wall Street
Reflections on the political crowd and labelling World Historical Events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3207092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Rojek (0000-0003-0196-8892, City, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 302-317 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038026116674884 |
| OpenAlex | W2567091304 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This article examines the political crowd as a World Historical Event (WHE). Historians define the latter as an episode, incident or emergency that transforms the course of history. The article analyses Hayden White's discussion of the WHE and the grounds he submits for separating it from pseudo-events: namely, the identification of collective trauma and the attribution of the episode as the fulfilment or 'filling out' of an historical sequence. The article offers a preliminary taxonomy and concentrates on the non-violent political crowd protest. It examines Occupy (2011) as a World Historical Event. It draws comparisons between Occupy, the Paris Commune (1871) and the May Spring in Paris (1968). The aim is to set the evidence for Occupy as a World Historical Event against claims made on its behalf by the media of the day and leading political and social commentators, notably David Harvey, Todd Gitlin, Cornell West and Noam Chomsky. The concept of 'Event inflation' is introduced and the claim that World Historical Events can only be determined by retrospective (historical) wisdom is advanced
Attribution · Event (particle physics) · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
The age of the crowd
Commemorating Trauma
On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917)
The Life and Death of Democracy
Disasters, Risks and Revelation
The #Occupy Movement
Prudent Rebels
This is What Democracy Looks Like’
A Theory of Culture‐switching
Civil Liberties, Thatcherism and Charter‘88
President Bush and Hurricane Katrina
March 1968
How Bloody Was La Semaine Sanglante of 1871? A Revision
V. Ideology and Motivation in the Paris Commune of 1871
Organizing for Homeland Security after Katrina
Occupy's predicament
Occupy Wall Street in perspective
The Historical Event
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals
Political Disobedience
Remembering the Historical Present
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |