Margrit Kennedy, (2012)
Sprache: english,
What is it to “occupy” money? We might find a clue in the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, which surely in spired the title of this book. Two defining issues stand out from those protests. Initially, the protests were motivated by wealth disparity and debt, and indeed, these are both topics that this book addresses. After the encampments were established, however, a second issue came to the fore: the right to occupy public space. Occupy took on the sense of reclaiming something from the few that is supposed to belong to the many. Symbolically, the encampments proclaimed: “This country is for everyone.”
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