A review by jcr610
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America by L.A. Kauffman, Marco Roth, Elizabeth Gumport, Alex S. Vitale, Judith Butler, Svetlana Kitto, Carla Blumenkranz, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Rebecca Solnit, Sunaura Taylor, Kung Li, Sarah Resnick, Thomas Paine, Zoltán Gluck, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, Manissa Maharawal, Sarah Leonard, Jodi Dean, Doug Henwood, Christopher Herring, Astra Taylor, Eli Schmitt, Stephen Squibb, Nikil Saval, Audrea Lim, Marina Sitrin

3.0

Hardly an 18th Brumaire, but Occupy was no July Revolution, probably for the better. Valuable for the few pieces that break from the kind of stereotypical well-educated, cultural-capitaled, New-York-or-San-Franciscan, guilty-feeling n+1 perspective--Audrea Lim's piece on Chinatown and its relationship to Occupy, Angela Davis' short piece on the historical connotations of occupying, the sections on Occupy Atlanta. And for the occasional salient details that give life to what occupying in this way was/is like (the drum-circle crisis!). Shouldn't be a last (or even first) word on the movement--"scenes," as the title promises, is an apt word for what it gives, but its "America" is a rather limited one.