{"id":4723,"date":"2019-03-27T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:59","slug":"bernard-e-harcourt-political-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-political-disobedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard E. Harcourt | Political Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Published in\u00a0<em>Critical Inquiry<\/em>: Vol 39, No 1 (2012)<\/h1>\n<p>The political phenomenon that was born in Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011 and spread rapidly across the nation and abroad immediately chal-lenged our vocabulary, our grammar, our political categories\u2014in short, our very language of politics. Although it was quickly apparent that a political paradigm shift had taken place before our eyes, it was hard to discern what Occupy Wall Street really represented, politically. It is time to begin to name this phenomenon and in naming to better understand it. So let me propose a term: <i>political disobedience<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Occupy Wall Street is best understood, I would suggest, as a new form of <i>political <\/i>as opposed to <i>civil <\/i>disobedience that fundamentally rejects the political and ideological landscape that has dominated our collective imagination in this country since before the cold war&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Read more here:<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.columbia.edu%2Fpraxis1313%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F03%2FHarcourt-Political-Disobedience.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/03\/Harcourt-Political-Disobedience.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2019\/03\/Harcourt-Political-Disobedience.pdf\" download>Download [108.60 KB] <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in\u00a0Critical Inquiry: Vol 39, No 1 (2012) The political phenomenon that was born in Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011 and spread rapidly across the nation and abroad immediately chal-lenged our vocabulary, our grammar, our political categories\u2014in short,&hellip; 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