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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In spite of a set of central unifying claims, the Occupy movement has generated a powerful challenge to the hegemonic politico-economic order through the expressive and transgressive act of occupation. Through such an act, occupy (verb) has become transformed into Occupy (noun): a resistance politics concerned with (re)claiming physical spaces and creating representational spaces. Following on the heels of the popular uprisings characterized as the 'Arab Spring', Occupy seemed to represent - even embody - the moment of democratic reflexivity where, if only just for a moment, the cracks in the façade of liberalism opened up just a little further, exposing the bonds between the decades-old frustrations of postcolonial subjects and the shattered hopes of democratic citizens. Occupy irrupted into the sacred space of global capitalism, and spread from Lower Manhattan to town squares and city centres the world over.
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