Jacob Mukherjee

is a teacher and activist, currently studying for a PhD on subcultures of disengagement and opposition among urban working-class youth, at Goldsmiths College. He jointly runs the Demand the Impossible radical activism summer school for inner London teenagers.

Articles

Occupy London

Occupy and the 99%

Understanding Occupy politics

A highly individualist identity politics is clearly one of the mainstays of the culture of the new capitalism. But, asks Jacob Mukherjee, could this also be precisely what constitutes a barrier to the formation of a collective political subject in the first place?

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