Daily Archives: December 31, 2010

Perspectives from the Occupation: The Performance of Security

One of two perspectives on the Bristol University occupation which appeared on the research blog, Mała Kultura Współczesna, earlier this month.

Joanna Tidy: The Performance of Security

I am going to start by quoting part of an informal conversation I had with the head of university security towards the end of the occupation:

Me: So, perhaps the Vice Chancellor might come down and speak to us now that you know we are not…

Jerry Woods [head of security]: Terrorists.

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Perspectives from the Occupation: Encounters with Powerful Men

One of two perspectives on the Bristol University occupation which appeared on the research blog, Mała Kultura Współczesna, earlier this month.

Cerelia Athanassiou: Encounters with Powerful Men

‘The moment the people is legitimately assembled as a sovereign body, the jurisdiction of the government wholly lapses, the executive power is suspended…For in the presence of the person represented, representatives no longer exist.’ (Rousseau [1762] 2008: 92)

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