Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID6220643
AuthorsMax Liboiron (0000-0003-3837-8650, New York University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume11
Issue3-4
Pages393-401
Publication date2012-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial movement studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-2829 • E-ISSN: 1474-2837
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14742837.2012.704178
OpenAlexW2009390049
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited3

Both Occupiers and our opponents have used waste and discards—figuratively and literally—in strategies to create and cultivate a new social movement on one hand, and to maintain power and control over protesters on the other. This study will look at the roles trash, waste, filth and discards have played in tactical decisions by both sides of the movement from the point of view of a New York City Occupier. Overall, the examples examined of trash, filth, discards and their attendant transgressions make up an ongoing political debate about the ideal society by both Occupiers and its opposition. These are the terms over which contests about what counts as tolerable and intolerable conditions, right and wrong, citizenship and the Other, acceptable and unacceptable behavior and what constitutes ‘out of placeness’ have been waged

Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Dirt · Discards · Environmental ethics · Ideal (ethics · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social movement · Sociology · Engineering · Law · Public Spaces through Art

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