Understanding Occupy from Wall Street to Portland (eBook)

Renee Guarriello Heath is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Portland and a scholar of community collaboration and democratic communication practices. C. Vail Fletcher is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Portland. She is a scholar that focuses on conflict and identity, international development and culture, and social media.Ricardo Munoz is a PhD student in communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a scholar of organizational communication with an emphasis on informal and non-hierarchical organizing.

ForewordDavid OsbornIntroduction: Engaging Occupy: An Introduction to Romantic, Practical, and Critical PerspectivesRenee Guarriello Heath and C. Vail FletcherPart 1: Situating Occupy Globally: the Cultural and Economic ContextChapter 1: A Genealogy of Occupy within Transnational Contexts, and Communication ResearchPriya Kapoor Chapter 2: We are the 99 percent: Occupy and the Economics of DiscontentWilliam BarnesChapter 3: Neofuedalism and the Financial Crisis: Implications for Occupy Wall StreetMajia Holmer NadesanPart 2: Local Interpretations of Occupy PortlandChapter 4: Confessional Tales from the Field: Owning Researcher Methods and Positionality Renee Guarriello Heath, Ricardo V. Munoz, and C. Vail FletcherChapter 5: Finding the Space Between: Participative Democracy, Consensus Decision-Making and a Leaderful/less MovementRenee Guarriello HeathChapter 6: Globalization from Below: Discourses of Horizontalism, Direct Action, and ViolenceRicardo V. MunozChapter 7: (De) Colonization and Collective Identity: Intersections and Negotiations of Gender, Race, and Class in OccupyC. Vail FletcherPart 3: Re(presentations) and Revelations: Occupy MediatedChapter 8: Violence, Bias, or Fair Journalism? Understanding Portland Media Coverage of an Episodic Protest Jennette Lovejoy and Keeler BryntesonChapter 9: An “Official” Account: Delivering Occupy Portland’s Eviction Notice erin daina mcclellan Chapter 10: Interconnected Discontent: Social Media and Social Capital in the Occupy MovementDoug Tewksbury