jpe.sagepub.com Book Review Karl Beitel’s Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital,

heels of a shift in the spatial politics of American social pro-test. This turn began with Occupy Wall Street, the September 2011 occupation of Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, which quickly spawned takeovers of urban space nationwide. Occupy’s activism translated disaffection with financial glo-balization into local terms, converting the cities that serve as loci of economic control into targets for collective reposses-sion (Sparke 2013, 387). By contrast, Beitel’s text strives to understand another configuration of urban struggle at a slightly earlier conjuncture. It investigates San Francisco’s antigentrification and antidisplacement movements during the city’s first dot-com boom and bust at the beginning of the new millennium. However, these conflicts unfolded against a broader backdrop of transnational antiglobaliza-tion protests, which rendered the future of left politics bot