DeHart Gender & Occupy Wall Street
DeHart – Gender and the Occupy Movement Historiography
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What is the historiography of this project on Occupy Wall Street?
What areas of history does this contribute to?
Due to the nature of Occupy Wall Street’s financial basis, especially with the “We are the 99%” and other elements of the protest’s messages this contributes to Economic History and Anarchism History. Then there is the discussion of Gender History as well. To a lesser extent these topics as well as Labor History & Socialism though this is not the focus of the project and mostly is seen in the signs. They just come through on some of the images used. there is an element to the topic of Protest Mobilization History as well.
For a discussion on Mobilization History, I invite you to have a look at this link. This is a press release on the source “The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics” This writing is a point of understanding of how Mobilization is handled in the 21st Century. The historiographical focus of this book is the analysis of forms of modern protest mobilization. There is also Calhoun’s writing “Occupy Wall Street in Perspective,” which is more of a general history that discusses the mobilization and decentralized nature of Occupy Wall Street, which also ties to the Anarchism history.
As for Gender, there are two major sources, Gender and Social Movements: Overview report, by Jessica Horn and Victim Blaming, Protests, and Public Space: News Coverage of the Occupy Wall Street Sexual Assaults, by Abigail Barefoot. The first source is a general coverage of gender in social movements that has a lot of content and offers a lot of context for Occupy Wall Street and the feminist perspective on what had occurred, such as segregation along the lines of gender. Then Abigail’s writing highlights something more insidious and that is how the press covered sexual assault in the Occupy camp. Abigail argues that the press was using the reporting of sexual assault to silence and scare away women from occupy by making it seem dangerous. In the terms of Occupy both sources are very eye-opening.