Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias: This is Just Practice

Holmes, Marisa

This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS, few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of footage from the OWS Media Working Group archive. In doing so, she reveals how the movement was organized in practice, which experiments were most successful, and what future generations can learn.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-07-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811989469

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-8947-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 335