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372016773 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 83 Eb 15 9789027266996 06 10.1075/bct.83 13 2016018023 DG 002 02 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 83 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Occupy</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements</Subtitle> 01 bct.83 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.83 1 B01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 01 eng 188 viii 180 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme COMM.CGEN Communication Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. The Arab Spring, the European Summer, the American Fall in 2011, the revolts in India and South Africa and, more recently, in Istanbul, in several cities in Brazil, and in Hong Kong, are part of a common wave of protests which reclaims squares and urban places, monumentally designed as political and economic centres, as places for discussion and decision-making, for increasing participation and intervention in the governance of the community. Through banners and signs, open assemblies, and other communicative practices in the encampments and interconnecting physical and virtual spaces, participants permanently reconfigure their lived spaces discursively. The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international perspective, undoubtedly represents a theoretical and methodological challenge. This book is a successful and innovative attempt to address this challenge, capturing the complex interplay between social, spatial, and communicative practices, drawing on complementary and alternative methods. Originally published in <i>Journal of Language and Politics</i> issue 13:4 (2014). 05 In this day and age when injustices are all around us, the ‘occupy movements’ echo the voices of ‘the people’. This outbreaking and detailed book conveys the different, and often similar agendas through which multimodal devices (texts, voices, objects, images and moving people) are manifested. Together, the studies in the book assign new meanings to ‘languages in action’ in urban public spaces. An excellent, fascinating book,&#8239;which challenges the field. Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University 05 Bringing together language, politics, place, placards and protest, this book opens up an alternative space to consider how recent political movements have been giving new meaning to city squares, resistant bodies and oppositional discourses. Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney 05 This book offers innovative perspectives on the dynamic interplay between space and semiotic practices. From Tahrir Square to Los Angeles City Hall Park, from Greece and Spain to Chile, the contributors take the reader on a world tour of the ways in which language, visual images and bodies operate performatively in order to create moments of spatial rupture. A truly interdisciplinary collection. Tommaso M. Milani, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 05 This book will be of interest to scholars conducting spatial analyses, with some chapters [...] of particular interest to linguistic landscape scholars. Corinne Seals, Victoria University of Wellington, in Linguistic Landscape 3:2 (2017) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.83.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242716.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242716.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.83.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.83.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.83.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.83.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.83.001con vii viii 2 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">List of Contributors</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.83.01mar 1 22 22 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Occupy</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements</Subtitle> 1 A01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 20 communicative practices 20 desterritorialisation 20 large-scale protests 20 Occupy 20 reterritorialisation 20 sites of resistance 20 social movements 20 urban spaces 01 Large-scale protests have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. Squares and urban places, monumentally designed as political and economic centres, have been reclaimed as places for discussion and decision-making, for increasing participation and intervention in the governance of the community. Through banners and signs, open assemblies, and other communicative practices in the encampments and interconnecting physical and virtual spaces, participants permanently reconfigure the spatial context discursively. The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international perspective, undoubtedly represents a theoretical and methodological challenge. This volume focuses on this complex interplay between social, spatial, and communicative practices, drawing on complementary and alternative methods. 10 01 JB code bct.83.02abo 23 46 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">A study of the relationship between discourse and space</Subtitle> 1 A01 Mariam Aboelezz Aboelezz, Mariam Mariam Aboelezz Lancaster University 20 discourse and space 20 geosemiotics 20 January 25 revolution 20 Linguistic landscapes 20 Tahrir Square 01 The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known as the Egyptian Revolution. Media reporting of the revolution often portrayed it as a &#8216;spectacle&#8217; playing out on the stage of Tahrir Square which was dubbed &#8216;the symbolic heart of the Egyptian revolution&#8217;. Tahrir Square quickly became a space serving various functions and layered with an array of meanings. This chapter explores the relationship between the discourse of protest messages and the space of Tahrir Square during the January 25 revolution, demonstrating how the two were mutually reinforcing. The messages are drawn from a corpus of approximately 2000 protest messages captured in Tahrir Square between 25 January and 11 February 2011. The analysis is presented in the form of six conceptualising frames for the space of Tahrir Square which take into account both its geographical and social context. The conceptualisation draws from the field of geosemiotics, which posits that all discourses are &#8216;situated&#8217; both in space and time (Scollon &#38; Scollon 2003), and on the Lefebvrian principles of the production of space which provide a useful framework for interpreting urban space (Lefebvre 1991). 10 01 JB code bct.83.03mar 47 76 30 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Taking over the Square</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The role of linguistic practices in contesting urban spaces</Subtitle> 1 A01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 20 communication practices 20 deterritorialisation 20 Linguistic landscapes 20 production/circulation of linguistic practices 20 reterritorialisation 20 sociolinguistic market 01 In this chapter I study the extent to which the <i>15-M</i> or Spanish <i>Indignados</i> movement has transformed the discourses of social movements, not only in terms of their content, but also in the way their communicative practices are produced and circulate. Thus, this paper firstly explores how changes in the conditions of production and circulation of linguistic practices contribute to the &#8220;deterritorialisation&#8221; and &#8220;reterritorialisation&#8221; of space, by means of which protestors replace the traditional organisation and uses of space with their own beliefs, ideologies and communicative practices. Secondly, I examine the extent to which this &#8220;reterritorialisation&#8221; leads to an in-depth transformation of the forms of communication, which could be, in their turn, not only transforming public spaces, but also social movements themselves, and the way of doing politics. The chapter addresses whether these practices, in projecting themselves onto a public space which they transform, prefigure in the present moment the kind of society being proposed and fought for. 10 01 JB code bct.83.04chu 77 98 22 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park</TitleText> 1 A01 Christian W. Chun Chun, Christian W. Christian W. Chun City University of Hong Kong 20 allusion 20 linguistic landscapes 20 mediated discourse analysis 20 mobility 20 Occupy Movement 20 social media 20 space 01 In this chapter, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape&#8217;s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs. 10 01 JB code bct.83.05gou 99 126 28 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Identity as space</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Localism in the Greek protests of Syntagma Square</Subtitle> 1 A01 Dionysis Goutsos Goutsos, Dionysis Dionysis Goutsos University of Athens 2 A01 George Polymeneas Polymeneas, George George Polymeneas Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona 20 corpus analysis 20 Critical Discourse Analysis 20 Greek protests 20 identity 20 public space 01 The chapter studies the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek &#8220;aganaktismeni&#8221; (<i>indignados</i>) movements, which mainly took place in the public gathering of tens of thousands of Greeks in Syntagma Square, outside the Greek parliament from May to August 2011. Data come from multiple sources, including the General Assembly proceedings and resolutions, while a linguistically-informed approach is followed, which combines Critical Discourse Analysis concepts with corpus linguistic methods. It is argued that the Syntagma protests generated a new context in Greek politics, by introducing new genres and the innovative articulation of already existing discourses. It was also found that social/political identities and social/public space were co-articulated, since the identity of the movement was crucially constructed in terms of space. 10 01 JB code bct.83.06ste 127 156 30 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Occupy Assembly</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Occupy Assembly</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discursive experiments in direct democracy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Rebecca Lila Steinberg Steinberg, Rebecca Lila Rebecca Lila Steinberg University of California, Los Angeles 20 assembly 20 deliberative democracy 20 direct democracy 20 discourse analysis 20 embodiment 20 hand signals 20 horizontalism 20 human mic 20 interaction 20 Occupy 20 participation 20 people's mic 20 public space 20 stance 01 A key feature of the Occupy movement has been the General Assembly (GA), in which participants, gathered in outdoor public space, engaged in emergent forms of direct deliberative democratic practice. GAs created opportunities for renewed, co-constructed discourses about human rights, collectivity and autonomy, and the nature of fairness. The physical, durative occupation of public space and establishment of encampments enabled participants to converse and collaborate meaningfully about these matters and their implications for action. An attested ideology of horizontalism was produced and reflected in practices of decision-making within a direct participatory democratic framework. The generation of local intersubjectivity and global solidarity as well as the embodied augmentation of personal and group agency were lodged within face-to-face interactions at Occupy GAs. Participants developed and adapted specific embodied tools for assembly use, including hand signals and the human mic, to facilitate a discursive praxis of egalitarianism within the context of a speech exchange system suited to a large outdoor deliberative body. These practices are central to the Occupy movement, as they constitute the discursive experiments in direct democracy set in motion by a shared recognition of social crisis and systemic injustice felt increasingly around the world. This chapter examines how several embodied practices at Occupy Los Angeles attend to participants&#8217; attested ideologies and the practical problems of open, large-group direct democracy. 10 01 JB code bct.83.07gar 157 178 22 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Spatial practices and narratives</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The GenkiDama for education by Chilean students</Subtitle> 1 A01 Óscar García Agustín García Agustín, Óscar Óscar García Agustín Aalborg University 2 A01 Félix J. Aguirre Díaz Aguirre Díaz, Félix J. Félix J. Aguirre Díaz University of Valparaíso 20 Flash mob 20 Manga 20 mobilization 20 narrative 20 place 20 space 20 spatial practices 20 students' movement 01 The Chilean students&#8217; rebellion emerged in 2011 within the wave of global protests. Even though it is an organized movement, with roots in a specific historical context, it shares with the global movement the use of new media technologies, the appropriation of public spaces, and the concern for democracy and equality. The movement deploys flexible forms of organization and mobilization such as <i>flash mobs</i>, in the case analyzed in this article, the GenkiDama for Education. The students create a narrative based on the famous Manga series <i>Dragon Ball Z</i> to reframe the conflict between students and government. As Manga fans, they open up participation to other less politically defined identities. The <i>flash mob </i>moment works as a communicative event in which the narrative is put into place and strengthens a sense of community in the streets of Santiago de Chile. To analyze the connections between the fictional narrative of Manga and the use of the public space, we draw on Michel de Certeau&#8217;s theory on spatial practices and the function of stories and place/space. Spatial practices during the flash mob challenge the social and spatial order in order to represent a symbolic victory of the students over the political system. 10 01 JB code bct.83.08ind 179 180 2 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160511 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027242716 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 90.00 EUR R 01 00 76.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 135.00 USD S 682016772 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 83 Hb 15 9789027242716 13 2016007748 BB 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 83 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Occupy</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements</Subtitle> 01 bct.83 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.83 1 B01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 01 eng 188 viii 180 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme COMM.CGEN Communication Studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. The Arab Spring, the European Summer, the American Fall in 2011, the revolts in India and South Africa and, more recently, in Istanbul, in several cities in Brazil, and in Hong Kong, are part of a common wave of protests which reclaims squares and urban places, monumentally designed as political and economic centres, as places for discussion and decision-making, for increasing participation and intervention in the governance of the community. Through banners and signs, open assemblies, and other communicative practices in the encampments and interconnecting physical and virtual spaces, participants permanently reconfigure their lived spaces discursively. The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international perspective, undoubtedly represents a theoretical and methodological challenge. This book is a successful and innovative attempt to address this challenge, capturing the complex interplay between social, spatial, and communicative practices, drawing on complementary and alternative methods. Originally published in <i>Journal of Language and Politics</i> issue 13:4 (2014). 05 In this day and age when injustices are all around us, the ‘occupy movements’ echo the voices of ‘the people’. This outbreaking and detailed book conveys the different, and often similar agendas through which multimodal devices (texts, voices, objects, images and moving people) are manifested. Together, the studies in the book assign new meanings to ‘languages in action’ in urban public spaces. An excellent, fascinating book,&#8239;which challenges the field. Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University 05 Bringing together language, politics, place, placards and protest, this book opens up an alternative space to consider how recent political movements have been giving new meaning to city squares, resistant bodies and oppositional discourses. Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney 05 This book offers innovative perspectives on the dynamic interplay between space and semiotic practices. From Tahrir Square to Los Angeles City Hall Park, from Greece and Spain to Chile, the contributors take the reader on a world tour of the ways in which language, visual images and bodies operate performatively in order to create moments of spatial rupture. A truly interdisciplinary collection. Tommaso M. Milani, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 05 This book will be of interest to scholars conducting spatial analyses, with some chapters [...] of particular interest to linguistic landscape scholars. Corinne Seals, Victoria University of Wellington, in Linguistic Landscape 3:2 (2017) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.83.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242716.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242716.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.83.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.83.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.83.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.83.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.83.001con vii viii 2 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">List of Contributors</TitleText> 10 01 JB code bct.83.01mar 1 22 22 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Occupy</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The spatial dynamics of discourse in global protest movements</Subtitle> 1 A01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 20 communicative practices 20 desterritorialisation 20 large-scale protests 20 Occupy 20 reterritorialisation 20 sites of resistance 20 social movements 20 urban spaces 01 Large-scale protests have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. Squares and urban places, monumentally designed as political and economic centres, have been reclaimed as places for discussion and decision-making, for increasing participation and intervention in the governance of the community. Through banners and signs, open assemblies, and other communicative practices in the encampments and interconnecting physical and virtual spaces, participants permanently reconfigure the spatial context discursively. The attempt to account for on-going social phenomena from the moment they first happen, and with an international perspective, undoubtedly represents a theoretical and methodological challenge. This volume focuses on this complex interplay between social, spatial, and communicative practices, drawing on complementary and alternative methods. 10 01 JB code bct.83.02abo 23 46 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">A study of the relationship between discourse and space</Subtitle> 1 A01 Mariam Aboelezz Aboelezz, Mariam Mariam Aboelezz Lancaster University 20 discourse and space 20 geosemiotics 20 January 25 revolution 20 Linguistic landscapes 20 Tahrir Square 01 The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known as the Egyptian Revolution. Media reporting of the revolution often portrayed it as a &#8216;spectacle&#8217; playing out on the stage of Tahrir Square which was dubbed &#8216;the symbolic heart of the Egyptian revolution&#8217;. Tahrir Square quickly became a space serving various functions and layered with an array of meanings. This chapter explores the relationship between the discourse of protest messages and the space of Tahrir Square during the January 25 revolution, demonstrating how the two were mutually reinforcing. The messages are drawn from a corpus of approximately 2000 protest messages captured in Tahrir Square between 25 January and 11 February 2011. The analysis is presented in the form of six conceptualising frames for the space of Tahrir Square which take into account both its geographical and social context. The conceptualisation draws from the field of geosemiotics, which posits that all discourses are &#8216;situated&#8217; both in space and time (Scollon &#38; Scollon 2003), and on the Lefebvrian principles of the production of space which provide a useful framework for interpreting urban space (Lefebvre 1991). 10 01 JB code bct.83.03mar 47 76 30 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Taking over the Square</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The role of linguistic practices in contesting urban spaces</Subtitle> 1 A01 Luisa Martín Rojo Martín Rojo, Luisa Luisa Martín Rojo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 20 communication practices 20 deterritorialisation 20 Linguistic landscapes 20 production/circulation of linguistic practices 20 reterritorialisation 20 sociolinguistic market 01 In this chapter I study the extent to which the <i>15-M</i> or Spanish <i>Indignados</i> movement has transformed the discourses of social movements, not only in terms of their content, but also in the way their communicative practices are produced and circulate. Thus, this paper firstly explores how changes in the conditions of production and circulation of linguistic practices contribute to the &#8220;deterritorialisation&#8221; and &#8220;reterritorialisation&#8221; of space, by means of which protestors replace the traditional organisation and uses of space with their own beliefs, ideologies and communicative practices. Secondly, I examine the extent to which this &#8220;reterritorialisation&#8221; leads to an in-depth transformation of the forms of communication, which could be, in their turn, not only transforming public spaces, but also social movements themselves, and the way of doing politics. The chapter addresses whether these practices, in projecting themselves onto a public space which they transform, prefigure in the present moment the kind of society being proposed and fought for. 10 01 JB code bct.83.04chu 77 98 22 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park</TitleText> 1 A01 Christian W. Chun Chun, Christian W. Christian W. Chun City University of Hong Kong 20 allusion 20 linguistic landscapes 20 mediated discourse analysis 20 mobility 20 Occupy Movement 20 social media 20 space 01 In this chapter, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape&#8217;s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs. 10 01 JB code bct.83.05gou 99 126 28 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Identity as space</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Localism in the Greek protests of Syntagma Square</Subtitle> 1 A01 Dionysis Goutsos Goutsos, Dionysis Dionysis Goutsos University of Athens 2 A01 George Polymeneas Polymeneas, George George Polymeneas Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona 20 corpus analysis 20 Critical Discourse Analysis 20 Greek protests 20 identity 20 public space 01 The chapter studies the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek &#8220;aganaktismeni&#8221; (<i>indignados</i>) movements, which mainly took place in the public gathering of tens of thousands of Greeks in Syntagma Square, outside the Greek parliament from May to August 2011. Data come from multiple sources, including the General Assembly proceedings and resolutions, while a linguistically-informed approach is followed, which combines Critical Discourse Analysis concepts with corpus linguistic methods. It is argued that the Syntagma protests generated a new context in Greek politics, by introducing new genres and the innovative articulation of already existing discourses. It was also found that social/political identities and social/public space were co-articulated, since the identity of the movement was crucially constructed in terms of space. 10 01 JB code bct.83.06ste 127 156 30 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Occupy Assembly</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Occupy Assembly</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discursive experiments in direct democracy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Rebecca Lila Steinberg Steinberg, Rebecca Lila Rebecca Lila Steinberg University of California, Los Angeles 20 assembly 20 deliberative democracy 20 direct democracy 20 discourse analysis 20 embodiment 20 hand signals 20 horizontalism 20 human mic 20 interaction 20 Occupy 20 participation 20 people's mic 20 public space 20 stance 01 A key feature of the Occupy movement has been the General Assembly (GA), in which participants, gathered in outdoor public space, engaged in emergent forms of direct deliberative democratic practice. GAs created opportunities for renewed, co-constructed discourses about human rights, collectivity and autonomy, and the nature of fairness. The physical, durative occupation of public space and establishment of encampments enabled participants to converse and collaborate meaningfully about these matters and their implications for action. An attested ideology of horizontalism was produced and reflected in practices of decision-making within a direct participatory democratic framework. The generation of local intersubjectivity and global solidarity as well as the embodied augmentation of personal and group agency were lodged within face-to-face interactions at Occupy GAs. Participants developed and adapted specific embodied tools for assembly use, including hand signals and the human mic, to facilitate a discursive praxis of egalitarianism within the context of a speech exchange system suited to a large outdoor deliberative body. These practices are central to the Occupy movement, as they constitute the discursive experiments in direct democracy set in motion by a shared recognition of social crisis and systemic injustice felt increasingly around the world. This chapter examines how several embodied practices at Occupy Los Angeles attend to participants&#8217; attested ideologies and the practical problems of open, large-group direct democracy. 10 01 JB code bct.83.07gar 157 178 22 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Spatial practices and narratives</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The GenkiDama for education by Chilean students</Subtitle> 1 A01 Óscar García Agustín García Agustín, Óscar Óscar García Agustín Aalborg University 2 A01 Félix J. Aguirre Díaz Aguirre Díaz, Félix J. Félix J. Aguirre Díaz University of Valparaíso 20 Flash mob 20 Manga 20 mobilization 20 narrative 20 place 20 space 20 spatial practices 20 students' movement 01 The Chilean students&#8217; rebellion emerged in 2011 within the wave of global protests. Even though it is an organized movement, with roots in a specific historical context, it shares with the global movement the use of new media technologies, the appropriation of public spaces, and the concern for democracy and equality. The movement deploys flexible forms of organization and mobilization such as <i>flash mobs</i>, in the case analyzed in this article, the GenkiDama for Education. The students create a narrative based on the famous Manga series <i>Dragon Ball Z</i> to reframe the conflict between students and government. As Manga fans, they open up participation to other less politically defined identities. The <i>flash mob </i>moment works as a communicative event in which the narrative is put into place and strengthens a sense of community in the streets of Santiago de Chile. To analyze the connections between the fictional narrative of Manga and the use of the public space, we draw on Michel de Certeau&#8217;s theory on spatial practices and the function of stories and place/space. Spatial practices during the flash mob challenge the social and spatial order in order to represent a symbolic victory of the students over the political system. 10 01 JB code bct.83.08ind 179 180 2 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160511 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 425 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 36 30 01 02 JB 1 00 90.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 95.40 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 30 02 02 JB 1 00 76.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 30 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 135.00 USD