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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.usfca.edu/ms Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Social Influence and Political Communication Commons Recommended Citation Kidd, D. (2013) #Occupy in the San Francisco Bay. In N. Duxbury (Ed.), Rethinking urban inclusion: Spaces, mobilisations, interventions. Cescontexto - Debates, no. 2 (pp. 312-326). Coimbra, Portugal: Center for Economic Studies, University of Coimbra. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts and Sciences at USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. It has been accepted for inclusion in Media Studies by an authorized administrator of USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. #Occupy in the San Francisco Bay Dorothy Kidd,1 San Francisco, U.S.A.
[email protected] Abstract: If Occupy Wall Street focused attention on the transnational resistance to the imaginaries and practices of neo-liberalization, the networked protests, collectively identified as #Occupy each emerged out of particular places, contexts and histories of co ntestation. This paper examines the significance in one urban region, the San Francisco Bay, and especially the intersection between #Occupy and longer-term residual urban social movements. Understanding neo-liberalization as a dynamic process, I begin by mapping the vectors of contention in the regional imposition of the neo-liberal project, and especially the sectors of housing, employment, education and media representation.