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David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in social and economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologi…
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Born 12 February 1961 · Died 2 September 2020 · Q1174579
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The essence of consensus process is just that everyone should be able to weigh in equally on a decision, and no one should be bound by a decision they detest.
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“OK, I was emotionally distraught, but I was doing things that were really dumb. How did I not notice that the signature was on the wrong line? There’s something about being in that bureaucratic situation that encourages you to behave foolishly.”
“The essence of consensus process is just that everyone should be able to weigh in equally on a decision, and no one should be bound by a decision they detest.”
“s lack of recognition of the legitimacy of either existing political institutions or the legal structure and its embrace of non-hierarchical consensus decision-making and prefigurative politics made it a fundamentally anarchist project. Comparing it to the Arab Spring, he said that Occupy Wall Street and other contemporary grassroots protests represented”
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Graeber died suddenly from internal bleeding caused by necrotic pancreatitis while on vacation with his wife and friends in Venice
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Died 2020-09-02.
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Graeber spoke at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Trafalgar Square about the relationship between "bullshit jobs" and environmental harm, suggesting that the environmental movement should recognize these jobs in combin
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Graeber married the Russian-born artist Nika Dubrovsky
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Drawing parallels between its resistance to the Islamic State and the Spanish Revolution his father had fought for
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Graeber tweeted that he had been evicted from his family's home of over 50 years due to his involvement with Occupy Wall Street
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Accepted a professorship at the London School of Economics and Political Science and moved to London
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“Consensus is not just a set of techniques. When we talk about process, what we’re really talking about is the gradual creation of a culture of democracy. This brings us back to rethinking some of our most basic assumptions about what democracy is even about.”
By Germany's leader of the opposition, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to present the book in Berlin, Graeber publicly criticized Germany's demands to Greece over debt repayment and told Steinmeier to "wipe out [Greece's] debt
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Democracy Now: David Graeber: The Debt of the American Poor Should Be Forgiven
Gave the anthropology department's annual Distinguished Lecture at Berkeley, and in 2012 he delivered the second annual Marilyn Strathern Lecture at Cambridge (the first was delivered by Strathern)
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Became well known as one of the leading figures of Occupy Wall Street, credited with coining the slogan "We are the 99%"
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Graeber was invited to give the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics
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Supported the 2010 UK student protests, and played an early role in the Occupy Wall Street movement
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And the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002, and later wrote an ethnography of the movement, Direct Action (2009)
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For the American magazine In These Times, he joined the meetings of the Direct Action Network in New York City
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Two years after completing his PhD, Graeber became an assistant professor at Yale University, then an associate professor
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And gave a course at New York University
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Born 1961-02-12.
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Volunteered for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, where he served as a driver in a medical unit
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s lack of recognition of the legitimacy of either existing political institutions or the legal structure and its embrace of non-hierarchical consensus decision-making and prefigurative politics made it a fundamentally anarchist project. Comparing it to the Arab Spring, he said that Occupy Wall Street and other contemporary grassroots protests represented
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