Occupy dame street as slow-motion general strike? Justifying optimism in the wake of Ireland’s failed multitudinal moment

Global Discourse

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 141-158

  Kiersey, Nicholas ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activism; Anarchism; Autonomist marxism; General strike; Horizontal politics; Irish financial crisis; Multitude; The common

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938291207     PISSN: 23269995     EISSN: 20437897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2014.898530     Document Type: Article

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