Dissenting the Dominant Narrative: An Analysis of the Occupy Movement in Light of Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies

Authors

  • Syed Hanif Rasool
  • Amjad Saleem

Keywords:

Occupy movement, cultural studies, Stuart Hall, Noam Chomsky, mainstream discourse, mass media dominant narrative

Abstract

Stuart Hall‟s theory of cultural studies proposes that mass media maintains the
ideology of the dominant class in a society. Grounding its argument on Hall‟s cultural
studies, the paper explores resistance of the Occupy Movement against the hegemonic
and dominant discourse mainly operated by the controlled media. It is also explored
how and to what extent the Occupy Movement is successful in achieving its main
goals; occupying the mainstream discourse, blocking repression of the movement by
protecting the write to speak, and by ending the corporate personhood.

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Published

2021-12-21

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

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