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In this session I’ll talk about my research with the REDO project, firstly in Hong Kong and secondly in London. I’ll describe the Occupy approach to democracy (called horizontal process), and w...ill then discuss Occupy as an attempt to get away from utilitarian or means–ends approaches to politics and life generally, and as festival occasions that manifest the sacred by placing alternative political values – such as friendship – to the fore. I’ll also suggest that concepts drawn from Religious Studies, such as fetishism and iconoclasm, are particularly useful to the study of these protest movements, because they locate political agency not in leaders or parties but in assemblies of human and non-human agents.
In this session I’ll talk about my research with the REDO project, firstly in Hong Kong and secondly in London. I’ll describe the Occupy approach to democracy (called horizontal process), and w...ill then discuss Occupy as an attempt to get away from utilitarian or means–ends approaches to politics and life generally, and as festival occasions that manifest the sacred by placing alternative political values – such as friendship – to the fore. I’ll also suggest that concepts drawn from Religious Studies, such as fetishism and iconoclasm, are particularly useful to the study of these protest movements, because they locate political agency not in leaders or parties but in assemblies of human and non-human agents.
| Series: | Freshers Event; Series January-February 2017 |
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| Episode | Day 2 Part 12 |
| Recording date: | 01-02-2017 |
| Published: | 2017 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:27:04 |
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| Presenter: | Karen Foley |
| Contributor: | Paul-François Tremlett |
| Publisher: | The Open University |
| Link to related site: | Internal url: http://studenthublive.open.ac.uk/abstract/religion-and-politics?event=%28re%29Freshers%20Event%20-%20January-February%202017 |
| Production number: | SHL00130 |
| Available to public: | yes |
