.... OWS operates as a flexible, “leaderless” organization, without a centralized authority or party affiliation, promoting occupation as a primary form of protest. This essay discusses the significance of the movement’s organization and strategy of occupation for its pro-democracy and wealth...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated...

...Saki Bailey; Maria Edgarda Marcucci This essay explores the legal and political dimensions of the occupation of the Teatro Valle in Rome and the transformation of the theater into a common goods foundation. The theater workers, acting together as a social movement for the protection of cultural...

...John H. Reynolds Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Cosmopolitan High Schools vs, Separate Occupation Schools. ,, By John H. Reynolds, Professor of History and Political Science in the University of Arkansas. The friends of agricultural education have failed to utilize per­ haps...

...Howard R. Marraro Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 AMERICAN OPINION ON THE OCCUPATION OF ROME IN 1870* Howard R. Marraro THERE WAS NO QUESTION as to the side with which Americans sympathized in the Franco-Prussian War. It was generally believed that Louis Napoleon...

...John Gimbel The Death and Life of Germany: An Account of the American Occupation . By Davidson Eugene . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1959 . Pp. ix , 422 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 291 Walker s cheap edition of Shakespeare. What part...

...John Menapace The Truth About a Publisher . By Unwin Stanley Sir . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1960 . Pp. 455 . $4.50 . An Occupation for Gentlemen . By Warburg Frederic . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1960 . Pp. 288 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1961...

...Stavros Stavrides What has been called the squares movement is characterized by practices of commoning that reinvent public space as commons. People in the recent square occupations were not only demanding justice and direct democracy but were also creating ad hoc new forms of solidarity...

... of resistance in those territories, the occupations, and evictions that shaped and continue shaping them. It highlights the feminized bodies in struggle against forced evictions of communities or carrying out occupations for housing: the conflictual recuperation of parts of the territory to construct commons...

...) against them, Western journalists tried to gather information quickly. Locals were happy to share as much as possible, as ISIS was a great danger. As an often forgotten population under permanent occupation seeking visibility, the Kurds allow Westerners unparalleled access to the field and provide unpaid...

... civil society, Abraham argues that there are clear analogues between Palestinian and Jewish suffering. After completing a theoretical survey of the arguments informing defenses of, and apologies for, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and destruction of Gaza, Abraham turns to the ways in which...

... . Prestige is the social expression of the labor value given up by subjects to institutions and their agents in return for the perceived security of (occupational) privilege; it is the collective form of charisma. In this light, iconic figures become remunerated, less for their individual work and its...

... that structure university life. Focusing in particular on the reclamation of Wheeler Hall on November 20, 2009, the essay draws out the relatively mundane acts of care that both enabled the occupation of Wheeler Hall and that extended, in various ways, the duration and oppositional force of this event. The essay...

...Nina Power This essay seeks to examine the constructed nature of the UK student as seen through the eyes of the media and the legal system following the protests and occupations that took place in late 2010 and 2011. It examines the events of this period and argues that although some...

... as the three-part strategy of social movements in deploying traditional political forums and mechanisms, illegal occupation, and contestation in courts of law. Access to common goods such as water, culture, and nature is fundamental to human life, and yet such access continues to be threatened by privatization...

... of a series of public urban occupations during and after the crisis. This framing allows an investigation of how the dominance of finance in capitalism “hits the ground” and how frontiers of capital open up new territories to establish conditions for accumulation in the world’s cities. The article focuses...

... addresses the unique challenges of creating an ethical pace of life for those multiply marginalized by race, gender, sexuality, and ability. The author focuses on her own occupation in the academy and in the field of digital humanities as a necessary case study to argue that, in our social justice visions...

... Langan calls “mobility disabilities” through corporeal assault as well as infrastructural and bureaucratic means is not only central to the calculus of the occupation but also, importantly, linked logics of debilitation; and that these calibrations of various types of movement render specific stretchings...

...Sam Law; Alan Cruz; Vanessa Nava Born of revolutionary struggles in the peripheries of Mexico City, the Panchos have spent the past three decades transforming land occupations into vibrant communities aiming to take charge of every aspect of their lives. To date, they have constructed eight...

...Dov Michaeli This essay analyzes the impasses of the Israeli mainstream and non-Zionist Left. It suggests that, given these impasses and the political strategies available in current discourse, BDS stands out as a viable form of opposition to the occupation. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015...