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Overcoming Erasure: Reappropriation of Space in the Linguistic Landscape of Mass-Scale Protests

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Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape

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When the world took notice of the Occupy Wall Street movement in September of 2011, a great many of the social majority were stunned by the scale and spread of the movement. It seemed like overnight the movement had spread across the United States and even to various first world countries internationally, gathering the support and involvement of quite a diverse group of people: different ages, ethnicities, genders, occupations, educational backgrounds and social classes. In fact, the driving forces behind Occupy were not new; they had been going on for months, and many scholars cite the Arab Spring movement from December 2010 as the inaugural movement (van Gelder, 2011). What was it then about Occupy that brought it so much international notice and garnered so much intrigue across social strata?

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  1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Rani Rubdy

  2. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

    Selim Ben Said

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Seals, C.A. (2015). Overcoming Erasure: Reappropriation of Space in the Linguistic Landscape of Mass-Scale Protests. In: Rubdy, R., Said, S.B. (eds) Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguistic Landscape. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426284_11

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