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The Democracy Project

Author	David Graeber
Subject	Memoir, Occupy Wall Street, anarchism
Published	2013 (Spiegel & Grau)
Pages	318
ISBN	978-0-8129-9356-1

Graeber on the Occupy movement

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement is anthropologist David Graeber's 2013 book-length, inside account of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Graeber evaluates the beginning of the movement, the source of its efficacy, and the reason for its eventual demise. Interspersed is a history of democracy, both direct and indirect, throughout many different times and places. In contrast to many other evaluations of OWS Graeber takes a distinctly positive tone, advocating both for the value of OWS and its methods of Direct democracy. The book was published by Spiegel & Grau.

Another book on Graeber's experiences with Occupy was published in German as Inside Occupy.

Further reading

• Bottum, Joseph (September–October 2013). "Occupying Anarchism". Books and Culture. Archived from the original on July 18, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
• Brass, Tom (February 2014). "A stroll in Zuccotti Park?". Capital & Class. 38 (1): 253–257. doi:10.1177/0309816813514827. ISSN 0309-8168. S2CID 154382842.
• Burrell, Kate (October 2014). "Rev. of The Democracy Project by David Graeber". Sociology. 48 (5): 1066–1067. doi:10.1177/0038038514543129. S2CID 145151339.
• Chen, Adrian (April 11, 2013). "A Discussion With Anarchist Activist and Scholar David Graeber, Author of The Democracy Project". Gawker. Archived from the original on November 24, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
• Cossarini, Paolo (March 2015). "The Struggle for Democracy: Occupations, Horizontality and Political Narratives after the Events of 2011". European Political Science. 14 (1): 41–45. doi:10.1057/eps.2014.46. S2CID 144151945.
• Ehrenreich, Ben (April 19, 2013). "David Graeber looks at the Occupy movement, from the inside". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016.
• Goldberg, Danny (May 31, 2013). "The Anarchy Project". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017.
• Inglis, Fred (June 6, 2013). "Anarchy in the UK and the US (Rev. of The Democracy Project by David Graeber)". Times Higher Education (2104): 48. ISSN 0049-3929. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017.
• Kalb, Don (2014). "Mavericks: Harvey, Graeber, and the reunification of anarchism and Marxism in world anthropology". Focaal. 2014 (69): 113–134. doi:10.3167/fcl.2014.690108.
• "Nonfiction Book Review: The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement by David Graeber. Random/Spiegel & Grau, $26 (318p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9356-1". Publishers Weekly. April 8, 2013. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
• O'Malley, J. P. (March 18, 2013). "This is What Democracy Looks Like: David Graeber". Publishers Weekly. 260 (11): 51–52. ISSN 0000-0019. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013.
• Penny, Laurie (May 31, 2013). "After the occupation (Rev. of The Democracy Project by David Graeber)". New Statesman. 142 (5160): 43–44. ISSN 1364-7431.
• Penny, Laurie (November 23, 2013). "The Reading List (Rev. of The Democracy Project by David Graeber)". New Statesman. 142 (5186): 13. ISSN 1364-7431.
• Raekstad, Paul (July 2015). "Occupation, Practice, and Revolution". Science & Society. 79 (3): 464–474. doi:10.1521/siso.2015.79.3.464.
• "Rev. of The Democracy Project by David Graeber". Kirkus Reviews. 81 (6): 246. March 15, 2013. ISSN 1948-7428. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017.
• Sanneh, Kelefa (May 13, 2013). "Paint Bombs". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 13. pp. 1–76. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on June 18, 2016.
• Saval, Nikil (2013). "Cheerleaders for Anarchism". Dissent. Vol. 60, no. 3. pp. 121–127. ISSN 0012-3846. Archived from the original on October 10, 2017.
• Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai (January 2015). "Sociopolitics". Reviews in Anthropology. 44 (1): 5–27. doi:10.1080/00938157.2015.1001645. S2CID 219713300.
• van de Sande, Mathijs (November 2014). "'Why did it work this time?' David Graeber on Occupy Wall Street". Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization. 14 (4): 1041–1047. ISSN 1473-2866. Archived from the original on October 5, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Interview on C-SPAN