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dc.contributor.authorFirth, Rhiannon
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-18T05:33:51Z
dc.date.available2022-08-18T05:33:51Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57974
dc.description.abstractAnarchists 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFF Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social servicesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagementen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disastersen_US
dc.subject.othergrenfell 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
dc.titleDisaster Anarchy
dc.title.alternativeMutual Aid and Radical Action
dc.typebook
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isFundedByUniversity College London
oapen.relation.isFundedByUniversity of London
oapen.relation.isbn9780745340456
oapen.relation.isbn9780745340463
oapen.relation.isbn9781786807939
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintPluto Press
oapen.pages256
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/62666d33-81a7-4970-8aba-cbc9b49e4a9b
oapen.identifier.isbn9781786807922


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