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A review by jcr610
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by Audrea Lim, Zoltán Gluck, Mark Greif, Elizabeth Gumport, Carla Blumenkranz, Jodi Dean, Keith Gessen, Svetlana Kitto, Marina Sitrin, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Alex S. Vitale, Eli Schmitt, L.A. Kauffman, Doug Henwood, Stephen Squibb, Marco Roth, Judith Butler, Kung Li, Sunaura Taylor, Rebecca Solnit, Sarah Resnick, Christopher Herring, Thomas Paine, Astra Taylor, Sarah Leonard, Manissa Maharawal, Nikil Saval
3.0
Hardly an 18th Brumaire, but Occupy was no July Revolution, probably for the better. Valuable for the few pieces that break from the kind of stereotypical well-educated, cultural-capitaled, New-York-or-San-Franciscan, guilty-feeling n+1 perspective--Audrea Lim's piece on Chinatown and its relationship to Occupy, Angela Davis' short piece on the historical connotations of occupying, the sections on Occupy Atlanta. And for the occasional salient details that give life to what occupying in this way was/is like (the drum-circle crisis!). Shouldn't be a last (or even first) word on the movement--"scenes," as the title promises, is an apt word for what it gives, but its "America" is a rather limited one.