ABSTRACT
The year 2011 saw a new wave of protest, resistance and contestation movements emerge across the world seeking to challenge the ideologies of the ruling elite and the inequalities those ideologies reinforce. The Occupy movement (note that in many parts of the world Occupy is often referred to as the (Un)Occupy or Decolonise movement), and related movements, have generated much critique or a sense of an alternative to the hegemony of capitalism. These forms of contestation against dominant neoliberal agendas have created forums for discussion about alternative futures. Yet such spaces, both physical and discursive, are threatened by ruling elites who seek to quash them through measures of control that are often justifi ed by viewing protesters as deviant or dangerous. Their control over the designation of deviance for rioters and protesters is an important way through which elites seek to maintain the daily reality of capitalist accumulation and inequality.
