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They Can´t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy
Marina Sitrin
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Description for They Can´t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy
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Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda-to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.
Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Japan, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is both one of the most expansive portraits of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the ... Read more
Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda-to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.
Written by two international activist intellectuals and based on extensive interviews with movement participants in Spain, Venezuela, Japan, across the United States, and elsewhere, this book is both one of the most expansive portraits of the assemblies, direct democracy forums, and organizational forms championed by the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680971
SKU
V9781781680971
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About Marina Sitrin
Marina Sitrin was a key member of the Occupy Wall Street movement and is a postdoctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center's Committee on Globalization and Social Change. She is the author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina, as well as editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina and coeditor of the forthcoming Insurgent Democracies: Latin ... Read more
Reviews for They Can´t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy
This book is riveting, moving, and profoundly important for those who want to know what revolution in our time might look like.
Rebecca Solnit, on Marina Sitrin’s Horizontalism The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today.
Gary Younge, on Dario Azzellini’s Ours to Master and to Own
Rebecca Solnit, on Marina Sitrin’s Horizontalism The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today.
Gary Younge, on Dario Azzellini’s Ours to Master and to Own