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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prelude
Preface
Introduction: Now is the winter of our discount tents!
Did nothing change?
Occupy (in) London
Outline
Notes
1. What is our one demand?
Foucault, power and resistance
Symbolic inefficiency and collective organisation
Rancière, democracy, and aesthetics
Conclusion
Notes
2. Whose streets? Our streets!
Finsbury Square, July 2013
Introduction: occupy in space
St Paul, the patron saint of tent-makers
The challenges of occupying space
The spatial imperative
La fête and the creative city
Conclusion: making ‘non-sense’ appear
Notes
3. We are the 99%
Trafalgar Square, May 2013
Introduction: a question of organisation
Inclusivity for the sake of it
The tyranny of structurelessness
As many Occupys as there are occupiers
Symbolic inefficiency
Conclusion: negotiating exclusion
Note
4. This is what democracy looks like
Rochester Square Gardens, September 2013
Introduction: the pursuit of authenticity
An activist identity
More authentic than others
Attempting to avoid hypocrisy
Myths of co-optation
Conclusion: being politically responsible
5. They owe us
Docklands, September 2013
Introduction: conspiracy theories
Mobilising conspiracy theories
Infiltrators and saboteurs
‘The 1%’
The powers that be
Conclusion: avoiding the cunning of impotence
Conclusion: This is not a protest, it‘s a process
The potential of Occupy
Non-sensible suggestions
The legacy of post-crash resistance
Notes
Interviewee demographics
Bibliography
Index
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