Marina Sitrin | |
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| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
| Occupation | writer, professor, and activist. |
| Education | CUNY Law School, Stony Brook University, Binghamton University, CUNY Graduate Center |
| Notable works | Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (2005 Spanish, 2006 English), Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (2012) They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy (2014) |
Marina Sitrin is an American writer, professor, lawyer and activist.
Marina Sitrin holds a PhD in Global Sociology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook and a JD in International Women's Human Rights from The City University of New York Law School. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. [1] Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. [2] [3]
She was involved in the Occupy movement from its inception. [4] Among other things, she was a member of the Occupy Wall Street legal team. Involved in political activism since adolescence, she collaborates with various movements around the world. [5] [6] [7]
Marina's work has been published in various publications, including The Nation , Yes! Magazine , La Revue internationale de sociologie comparée, Prensa Latina and the Huffington Post . [8] [4] [2]
She is editor of Horizontalidad: Voces de Poder Popular en Argentina (Chilavert, 2005), which was published in English as Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press, 2006). She is author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012). She co-authored They Can't Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso Books, 2014) and co-edited, with Colectiva Sembrar, Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the COVID 19 Crisis (Pluto Press, 2020).
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