140 Pages
by
Routledge
140 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
140 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Collecting Activism, Archiving Occupy Wall Street explores the material collections produced by participants of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 that bear witness to the experience and agency of ‘the 99%’. Examining processes of collection development as a lens through which to investigate the sociology of protest and reform movements, the book questions what contribution a dual study of the... Read more
Introduction: Go document history as it happens
1. Activist collecting: Writing movement lives through things
2. Object lessons: Occupy Wall Street. Bring tent
3. Organizing action: Archiving Occupy
Conclusion: This changes everything
Biography
Kylie Message is Professor of Public Humanities in the Humanities Research Centre and Associate Dean (Research) for the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her recent publications include The Disobedient Museum: Writing at the Edge, Museums and Racism, and Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest. She is the Founding Series Editor of ‘Museums in Focus’.
