Libraries amid Protest: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism

by Sherrin Frances

Book Overview

In September 2011, Occupy Wall Street activists took over New York's Zuccotti Park. Within a matter of weeks, the encampment had become a tiny model of a robust city, with its own kitchen, first aid station, childcare services--and a library of several thousand physical books. Since that time, social movements around the world, from Nuit Debout in Paris to Gezi Park in Istanbul, have built temporary libraries alongside their protests. While these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344910
• ISBN13: 9781625344915
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"