Monday, October 5, 2015

Oleg Komlik — Are we the 99%? The corporatization of activism and cooptation of social protests

Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism by Peter Dauvergne and Genevieve Lebaron, aims at shedding light on the less known angle of the global activism. As millions of citizens rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring businesses’ aspirations and echoing calls for market-based solutions. The authors are interested in how widespread current grassroots movements have become captured in the very structures and discourses they originally sought to combat….
You knew this would happen, didn't you.

Economic Sociology and Political Economy
Are we the 99%? The corporatization of activism and cooptation of social protests
Oleg Komlik | founder and editor-in-chief of the ES/PE, Chairman of the Junior Sociologists Network at the International Sociological Association, a PhD Candidate in Economic Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, and a Lecturer in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the College of Management Academic Studies

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