017 - Thematic Session. Politics of Wall Street

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This session addresses the political issues and contention surrounding U.S. financial capital and provoked by economic crisis. The session will include papers that address the consequences of political contention surrounding U.S. financial practices, mainly involving the interaction between “outsider” and “insider” political action. Participants include top political sociologists, social movement, and media scholars who have researched and analyzed these issues.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Edwin Amenta, University of California-Irvine

Presider

• David S. Meyer, University of California-Irvine

Individual Presentations

• Economic Protest Movements of the Great Depression and Great Recession - Edwin Amenta, University of California-Irvine

• Occupy the Media: How Social Movements Influence Newspaper Coverage - Neal Caren, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Sarah Gaby, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

• Looking Back at Occupy Wall Street: Protest Movements in the Aftermath of the Great Recession - Ruth Milkman, City University of New York-Graduate Center