American Ethnologist

AE Forum: Occupy Movements

Contributing to an anthropology of democracy, the Occupy articles in this issue explore the understudied topic of direct democracy, or direct action, as a response to a perceived crisis in representative democracy.

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Editor’s Foreword
Angelique Haugerud

The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming
Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik

Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation
Jeffrey S. Juris

Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements
David Nugent

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