Dreaming in Public Building the Occupy Movement
Author: Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky
Among the growing range of books on the Occupy movement Dreaming in Public will stand out for one simple reason. It is of the movement, not about it.
Reviews
'Dreaming in Public has accomplished an amazing feat: holding this book in your hands, you can feel the vitality, creativity, candor and collective puzzling and inclusive determination that is making the Occupy movement one of the most influential social movements of our times. This is a book that is both revealing and energizing.'
Joni Seager and Cynthia Enloe
'The history of this movement will be written – and re-written – many times over in the future. For now, thankfully, New Internationalist has archived some of the important primary sources.'
Scott J, The Occupied Oakland Tribune
A stunningly comprehensive compilation of materials, from public statements to engaged reportage, essays focused on analysis and strategy, and documentation of the visual culture of the movement. Neither a narrative of the events nor an observer analysis but an assembly of primary sources - the ‘raw materials’ that developed within the movement.
Created by two New York-based Occupy movement participants, Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky, the book includes contributions from a wealth of protagonists, including Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Klein, Sara Paretsky, Lemony Snicket, and Staughton Lynd.
About the Editors
Amy Lang: Amy Schrager Lang taught U.S. literature and cultural studies
for thirty five years and is Professor of English and Humanities at Syracuse
University. The author, most recently, of The Syntax of Class (Princeton, 2003)
and the co-editor of What Democracy Looks Like (Rutgers, 2006), Lang currently
serves as co-editor of the University of Michigan’s Class : Culture series and as
the book review editor of the AAUP’s journal, Academe.
Daniel Lang/Levitsky: Activist, author, artist and theater producer. Daniel
Lang/Levitsky is a theater artist and organizer based in Brooklyn, a founding
member of the Direct Action Network - NY and Jews Against the Occupation,
and active in a range of radical movements. Lang/Levitsky has written on radical
history, politics, and theater for Bridges, Monthly Review, History News Network,
and others.
Listen to the authors interviewed on KRLC RadioActive! talking about Dreaming in Public.
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| Format: | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Dimensions: | 216 mm x 138 mm |
| Page extent: | 256 |
| Publication date: | June 2012 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78026-084-6 |
Date added: April 20, 2012
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