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Commentary: Democracy, temporalities of capitalism, and dilemmas of inclusion in Occupy movements
Author(s) -
Nugent David
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01363.x
Subject(s) - temporalities , capitalism , temporality , democracy , opposition (politics) , sociology , inclusion–exclusion principle , political economy , epistemology , political science , social science , politics , law , philosophy
The two articles in this issue that I consider here raise fascinating questions about the temporalities of capitalism and about the dilemmas of inclusion in the recent Occupy movements. I explore some of these questions by focusing on three features of the movements: their temporal registers, their moral imaginaries, and their implicit and explicit understandings of democracy. I connect these different threads by showing their relationships to one another and also to what activists believe Occupy has emerged in opposition to: the interrelated crises of global capitalism and representative democracy. [ democracy, capitalism, public protest, Occupy, temporality ]