9780745340456 - Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action von Firth, Rhiannon (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. 2022. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: New. KlappentextAs disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of alternatives for relief.As disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of alternatives for relief.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilized relief in their wake, their efforts revived the term 'mutual aid' into common parlance. As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations, and brigades have sprung up in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy and the COVID-19 response were widely acknowledged to have organized relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs. However, anarchist-inspired relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their responses include surveillance, co-option, extending at times to violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena to emerge in the twenty-first century, Rhiannon Firth shows through her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory and practice are needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.