ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the ethnographic data collected from the Occupy movement in London. The wider context of movements like Occupy (in) London made political organisation extremely difficult, with norms of individualism and libertarianism undermining collective mobilisation and symbolic efficiency. These strategic problems also made it harder for movements like Occupy to make their resistance 'appear' and be 'heard' against a wider context that distributed them as 'non-sense', while, finally, unintentionally extending the norms and presuppositions of that which they were resisting against. With so many different groups, there were many alternative objectives expressed by the movement in London, and these were occasionally even self-contradictory. This makes it especially difficult to pin down exactly what Occupy (in) London wanted to achieve, and also created a major strategic problem of organisation. Occupy London brought together concerned citizens to fight for a new political and economic system that puts people, democracy and the environment before profit.
