"Revisiting the 2010s Protest Movements: Organization & Strategy in Post-Horizontalism" at the Next System Teach-In
Presented by Dr. Nara Roberta Silva
Friday, November 14, 2025 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST
Fuse at Mason Square, 6302 and on Zoom
This talk reexamines the protest wave of the 2010s — Occupy Wall Street and its global counterparts — in light of the shifting political terrain of the last decade. Through dialogue with recent scholarship and activist reflections, the talk revisits the period’s key challenges — organizational fatigue, fragmentation, and the absence of shared horizons — and argues that contemporary organizing inherits the 2010s’ unresolved tensions: between autonomy and coordination, participation and direction, process and horizon. Revisiting the 2010s, then, is less an exercise in nostalgia than an invitation to re-theorize strategy as an ecology rather than a blueprint — as a plural assembly of practices, flexible enough to sustain experimentation and durable enough to pursue long-term transformation.
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This talk is part of the 2025 Next System Teach-In at GMU. For the full program of events, see https://nextsystem.gmu.edu/articles/22762
Dr. Nara Roberta Silva is Core Faculty and Praxis Program Head at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where she also earned her B.A. and M.A. Her research and teaching center on the intersections of social and political theory, racial capitalism, social movements, political economy, and participatory democracy, with a sustained commitment to public scholarship and social justice.
