Hi all,
I'm looking for a couple of things--any help is appreciated!
1. First, I'm looking for some recent-ish books that feature interviews with participants in recent left movements. For example, books on the Global Justice Movement of the 1990s or Occupy, etc., that have interviews with people who participated.
2. Second, I'm trying to find some academic, sociological analysis of those recentish movements since the 1990s, especially anarchist-tinged horizontal movements.
Any thoughts???
Well I don't think these are
Well I don't think these are difficult to find either by using an internet search engine for the words you use in your query or via a good public library, although I suppose the latter might by harder to find these days. There is lots in the libcom library too if you look at these tags
https://libcom.org/tags/occupy-movement
https://libcom.org/tags/occupy-wall-street
Anyway I searched at a popular online bookstore (specifically for 'Occupy Wall Street') (although other more radical bookshops are available online) and came up with a few purporting to be insider accounts
Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America by Astra Taylor
Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street by Todd Gitlin
This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement by Sarah van Gelder
David Graeber would be the writer to look into for academic analysis
Oh this looks to be what you
Oh this looks to be what you are seeking
Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street by Mark Bray with over 200 interviews
I would second Translating
I would second Translating Anarchy.
I would add They Can't Represent Us! by Dario Azzellini and Marina Sitrin which has a global focus and is properly your best bet for interviews.
Graeber has a good book on Occupy called The Democracy Project and an ethnography on the Global Justice Movement called Direct Action.
I would also recommend one no, many yeses by Paul Kingsnorth about the Global Justice Project. Its been a while since I have read it and I am not sure how many interviews there were.
It was like a Fever is also good, though it has been a very long time and I don't all of it was focused on the Global Justice Movement.
For something slightly different you might want to look for Hacker, Hoaxer, Spy by Gabriella Coleman about Anonymous.
Oh and Egypt in the Future
Oh and Egypt in the Future Tense is a good background reading for 2011 uprising in Egypt.
For 1: Marina Sitrin's
For 1: Marina Sitrin's Horizontalism is an oral history of the 2001 Argentine movements.
For 2: Rodrigo Nunes' Organisation of the Organisationless is a pretty good place to start.