Anyone have links to biographies of contemporary leaders of protests/direct action politics? I don’t have a clear mental model of the “career path” of such people for want of a better term. Where do they come from? Where do they learn their skills? Where do they form beliefs?
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I also suspect there’s 2 different kinds of leaders: those who perform the control/keep-it-peaceful plausible deniability gestures and thise who lead the precipitation of violence and catalyze the unraveling.
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It’s clear what range of motives might drive black protesters, but the white ones are a question mark to me. Some are sincerely trying to be allies I’m sure, but several present in ways that suggest they’re out for excitement/adventure and the cause is just convenient.
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Graeber's Direct Action an Ethnography is an ethnographic survey of the Global Justice Movememnt
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contemporary leaders of protests is a misnomer since Occupy Wall Street and movements such as BLM are broadly spread through sentiment and collect around those.
as well u could research how many leaders have been *ASSASSINATED. it's part of y u don't have the mental model.
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You need to look outside US. 2019 was a year of protests/direction action in France, Lebanon, Sudan, Chile, Hong Kong etc ... It is global, growing and now accelerating during the pandemic as corrupt rotten systems get exposed.
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I would argue the greatest innovation in modern day protests is a lack of clear leadership (decentralized protests). I’d argue this started with Project Chanology which was the first successful Scientology protest and moved to Occupy Wall Street before landing in the Arab Spring
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Maybe one of Starhawk's books. Truth or Dare: Encounters With Power, Authority and Mystery and Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising seems to be the ones that deal with protests the most amazon.com/gp/product/B00
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