{"id":50,"date":"2011-03-27T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T09:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:52:51","slug":"the-occupation-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"The Occupation Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Occupation Cookbook<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb<br \/>\n<\/strong>Introduction by Marc Bousquet<br \/>\nTranslated from the Croatian by Drago Markisa<\/p>\n<p><em>The Occupation Cookbook<\/em> is a \u201cmanual\u201d that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide to undertake a similar action.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to \u201coccupy\u201d a school? A school occupation is not, as the corporate media like to portray it, a hostile takeover. A school occupation is an action by those who are already its inhabitants \u2013 students, faculty, and staff \u2013 and those for whom the school exists. (Which is to say for a public institution, the public itself.) The actions termed \u201coccupations\u201d of a public institution, then, are really re-occupations, a renovation and reopening to the public of a space long captured and stolen by the private interests of wealth and privilege. \u00a0The goal of this renovation and reopening is to inhabit school spaces as fully as possible, to make them truly habitable \u2013 to make the school a place fit for living. \u2013 Marc Bousquet, from the Introduction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-YNGDBG8BGZVSJ\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"YNGDBG8BGZVSJ\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-YNGDBG8BGZVSJ\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/occupationcookbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Occupation Cookbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Available from this site for \u00a34<\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">UK: \u00a36 \/ US: $10<br \/>\n<\/span>80 pages, 6 x 9<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-218-9<br \/>\nRelease date April 1st, 2010<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupation Cookbook or the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb Introduction by Marc Bousquet Translated from the Croatian by Drago Markisa The Occupation Cookbook is a \u201cmanual\u201d that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anonymous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}