Social Text Periscope on OWS

By   Ashley Dawson September 27, 2013 Categories Dispatches from an OccupationTags

Click here to read. On the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, Social Text is pleased to debut “Is This What Democracy Looks Like?” a collection of original essays on horizontalism in theory and practice. Written and edited by faculty and graduate students from NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services and the CUNY Graduate Center Digital Initiatives. Click here to read the entire dossier free online.

Ashley Dawson

Ashley Dawson is professor of postcolonial studies in the English department at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. His latest books include People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R, 2020), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso, 2017), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R, 2016). A member of the Social Text Collective and the founder of the CUNY Climate Action Lab, he is a long-time climate justice activist.