“Yes, we camp!”: Democracy in the Age Occupy

Authors

  • Ziga Vodovnik University of Ljubljana
  • Andrej Grubacic California Institute of Integral Studies, 1435 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94103

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4335/13.3.537-557(2015)

Keywords:

occupy, democracy, citizenship, infrapolitics, city, exilic space, social movements

Abstract

This article explores the global mass assembly movement, focusing on its redefinitions of democracy and political membership, where one of the most interesting and promising aspects is reaffirmation of spatiality. In a way, the so-called Occupy Movement imagined new concepts of democracy and political membership worked out on a more manageable scale, that is to say, within local communities. We build on the recent scholarly attention given to the notion of nonstate spaces, which we chose to call exilic spaces because they are populated by communities that voluntarily or involuntarily attempt escape from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.

Author Biographies

  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor

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Published

2015-07-31

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Section

Conference Paper (Annual Conference 2020)