UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS books for spring | summer 2018 CATALOG HIGHLIGHTS Modern David Mura Food or friends? The power of scholars look at explores the role A new look at our multiethnic our enduring 12 31 of identity in relationship with graphic novels to 4 fascination with 26 narrative craft livestock reshape history pirates TITLE INDEX 18 a. e. bye 27 ghost fishing 31 redrawing the historical Way, Thaïsa Tuckey, Melissa, ed. past Cutter, Martha J., and 17 the andrew low house 4 the golden age of piracy Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, eds. Sammons, Tania June, Head, David, ed. with Virginia Connerat Logan 37 regional pathways to 38 introduction to housing nuclear nonproliferation 35 arkansas women Anacker, Katrin B., Andrew T. Wan, Wilfred Jones-Branch, Cherisse, and Carswell, Sarah D. Kirby, and Gary T. Edwards, eds. Kenneth R. Tremblay, eds. 36 relational poverty politics Lawson, Victoria, and 22 better than war 23 ladies night at the dreamland Sarah Elwood, eds. 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Haynes, Joshua S. 30 gardenland 33 the price of permanence Atkinson, Jennifer Wren Bryan, William D. 5 george washington’s 32 race and nation in the age of washington emancipations Costanzo, Adam Stewart, Whitney Nell, and John Garrison Marks, eds. Front cover design: Erin Kirk New HISTORY / CURRENT EVENTS The many uprisings that helped to forge modern-day New York City Revolting New York How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City edited by neil smith and don mitchell | GEOGRAPHIES OF JUSTICE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION | “Like a woke dog zapped by an invisible electric barrier whenever it tries Neil Smith (1954–2012) was to leave the yard, I now recognize the real reason I can’t escape this place. Distinguished Professor of Revolting New York is an electrifying compendium of tales of four centuries Geography and Anthropology at of the energetic insubordination that is so completely foundational to our the Graduate Center at the City character. While the causes and constituencies have varied all over our map, University of New York. the constant has been taking to the streets, fomenting an unending festival of resistance. I couldn’t be prouder than to discover that my homes downtown Don Mitchell is Distinguished have been at uprising’s very epicenter. You can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the Professor of Geography Emeritus Union Square!”—Michael Sorkin, author of What Goes Up: The Rights and at Syracuse University and Wrongs of the City Professor of Cultural Geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the neil smith story of New York’s evolution through revolution, a story of near- of the author Courtesy continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising. Richly illustrated with more than ninety historical and contemporary images, historical maps, and maps drawn especially for the book, Revolting New York provides the fi rst comprehensive account of the historical geography of revolt in New York, from the don mitchell earliest uprisings of the Munsee against the Dutch occupation of Tipmanoworn Pamela Manhattan in the seventeenth century to the Black Lives Matter movement and the unrest of the Trump era. Through this rich APRIL 8.5 x 8.5 | 362 pp. narrative, editors Neil Smith and Don Mitchell reveal a continuous, 90 b&w images, 16 maps if varied and punctuated, history of rebellion in New York that is paperback $29.95t / $44.95 cad as vital as the more standard histories of formal politics, planning, 9780820352824 hardback $94.95y / $142.50 cad economic growth, and restructuring that largely defi ne our 9780820352817 consciousness of New York’s story. ebook available university of georgia press / spring:summer 2018 | 1 HISTORY / CURRENT EVENTS REVISED PAGES REVISED PAGES Occupy Wall Street 287 chapter 19 Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street protesters below and banksters above at Cipriani on September 17, 2011. Finance Capital and Its Discontents, 2011 Photo by Scott Lynch, used by permission. Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Zultán Gluck “Are you ready for a Tahrir moment? On Sept 17 flood into jeered, “Get a job!” and dumped his drink on the people be- lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades low, while protesters in turn chanted, “Pay your share!” and and occupy Wall Street.” So read a call from Adbusters that ultimately “Jump! Jump! Jump!” made the rounds in July 2011, and sure enough, that Septem- In the late afternoon, those protesters still remaining ber 17, a few thousand protesters eagerly responded, con- gathered on the steps of the Museum of the American In- verging in Manhattan’s Financial District to “Occupy Wall dian at Bowling Green (the old U.S. Custom House and Street.”1 Many of the places where they had planned to pro- the site of the colonial Fort Amsterdam / Fort James / Fort test, including Wall Street itself, were blocked off by metal George) to make speeches and listen to performance artist barricades and guarded by the police. Undeterred, they and activist Reverend Billy preach. There, a “tactics team” marched through the streets of the Financial District and announced that everyone should move up Broadway to Zuc- gathered in parks and plazas, holding teach-ins and speak- cotti Park, which, through the team’s scouting, they knew became a much broader, more encompassing, global upris- “prefigure” other possible worlds and modes of social orga- outs and waving signs with messages like “Democracy Not was open and free of the police barricades that surrounded ing. A commonly recognized symbol of American financial nization (in production and consumption and for solidarity) Corporatization” and “Revoke Corporate Personhood.”2 One Chase Manhattan Plaza (the site originally intended for power, Wall Street became a metaphor for everything that and decision-making outside of and in opposition to capital- Later in the afternoon the protesters managed to briefly the occupation). The protesters moved to Zuccotti Park, and was wrong with global capitalism. With its meteoric rise, ism. In the wake of the 2008 economic crisis and amid rising march on Wall Street but were stopped from proceeding to the day ended with a General Assembly in which protesters Occupy in turn became a general symbol for all forms of unemployment, a home foreclosure epidemic, and burgeon- the New York Stock Exchange by a line of police at William decided to spend the night and indefinitely occupy the park. resistance to global capitalism—the antithesis of Wall Street ing debt across the social spectrum (from student loans to Street in front of an old Greek Revival building that once In the following weeks and months Zuccotti was to become and a beacon of possibility. In New York, hundreds of work- credit card debt and on to medical debt and beyond), Oc- housed the New York Merchants’ Exchange and the head- the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, ing groups—autonomously organized groups of between cupy Wall Street issued a clarion call for change. The move- quarters of the National City Bank.* The building is now as “Occupy” encampments modeled on the one in Zuccotti five andREVISED five hundred PAGES people—soon began organizing on a ment burned hot and bright, radicalized a generation, and REVISED PAGES home to the elite luxury restaurant Cipriani, frequented by sprang up in 1,500 cities around the country and, within a variety of political issues under the Occupy Wall Street ban- brought people into politics who had never before been Wall Street bankers, with a balcony overlooking Wall Street. month, some 950 cities in 82 other countries around the ner. Many of these groups linked up with ongoing struggles involved in any form of protest. It burst onto the scene of Protesters engaged the upscale cocktail drinkers on the bal- globe. in the city and with existing community groups and organi- world politics, exciting millions, but then quickly dissipated, cony in a shouting match. One of the men on the balcony Occupy Wall Street began as a protest against wealth in- zations, even as they broke new political ground. The occu- heaving under the weight of its internal contradictions and * It also at one time housed the NYSE and the U.S. Customs House in one of equality and the obscene power of banks and finance cap- pation in Zuccotti Park itself quickly became a site of radical eventually collapsing under the pressure of coordinated po- its iterations. The upper floors are now swank condominiums. ital within the American political system. It very quickly political experimentation, with Occupiers actively trying to lice repression.