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Activists and Activisms Amidst Occupy-Type Protests: Practices, Possibilities and Dilemmas

Wednesday, July 16, 2014: 10:30 AM-12:20 PM
Room: 418
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)

Language: Spanish and English

Session Organizer:
Ignacia PERUGORRIA, Rutgers University, USA
Chair:
Ignacia PERUGORRIA, Rutgers University, USA
Activists and Activism In The Occupy Movements In France and In Ireland (Oral Presentation)
Didier CHABANET, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France; Frédéric ROYALL, University of Limerick, Ireland

Embodied Protest in Occupy London: Between Homo Sacer and the Biopolitical Body (Oral Presentation)
Jana COSTAS, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Juliane REINECKE, Warwick University, United Kingdom

Everything but the Funnel Cake: Art and the University of Puerto Rico Student Occupation of 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Katherine EVERHART, Vanderbilt University, USA

Occupy Gezi: From an Uprising to a Social Movement? (Oral Presentation)
Ayse SAKTANBER, Middle East Technical University, Turkey; Binnaz SAKTANBER, City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA