Occupying London: Post-Crash Resistance and the Limits of Possibility

by Sam Burgum

Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8? Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in London - as a case study of one post-crash attempt to bring alternatives about - this book argues that change was ultimately foreclosed by widespread 'common...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367438968
• ISBN13: 9780367438968
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"