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    Disaster Anarchy

    Mutual Aid and Radical Action

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    Author(s)
    Firth, Rhiannon
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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 mobilised relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. 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 was widely acknowledged to have organised relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term 'mutual aid' entered common parlance. 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 is needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57974
    Keywords
    grenfell tower disaster, grenfell tower fire, hurricane katrina, mutual aid programs, anarchism and disasters, disaster risk reduction, DiY politics, Dystopia, Occupy London, Anarchism and women, security studies, securitization, open source, Occupy Movement, hacktivism, disasters, disaster capitalism, degrowth, Covid-19, cybernetics, disaster studies, Climate disasters, Hurricanes, Kropotkin, Occupy Wall Street, Social movements, Surveillance capitalism, Utopianism, Occupy Sandy, Anti-capitalism, Climate change, Climate crisis, communisation, cooperative movement, cooperatives, counterinsurgency, Anarchism in the 21st century, Modern anarchism, Feminist anarchism, Grenfell tower, Hurricane sandy, Anarchism and community, How to be an anarchist, Practical anarchism, Mutual aid, Anarchism in everyday life, Mutual aid vs charity, female anarchist authors, anarcho-feminism, anarchist utopia, militant solidarity, community organizing, what is disaster capitalism?, what is antifa?, what is mutual aid?, How to build a co-op, Intentional communities, Anarchist response to crisis, What is mutual aid, Community Building, Preppers, direct action
    ISBN
    9780745340456, 9780745340463, 9781786807939, 9781786807922
    Publisher
    Pluto Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.plutobooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
    • University College London
    • University of London
    Imprint
    Pluto Press
    Classification
    Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)
    Social welfare and social services
    Political activism / Political engagement
    Natural disasters
    Pages
    256
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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