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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 collect...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-579742023-05-24T12:26:52Z Disaster Anarchy Firth, Rhiannon 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 bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFC Social impact of disasters bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare & social services bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNR Natural disasters 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. 2022-08-18T05:33:51Z 2022-08-18T05:33:51Z 2022 book 9780745340456 9780745340463 9781786807939 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57974 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf Pluto Press Pluto Press e7b13f6b-a18c-4c0b-97b8-d1891104b9c4 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 University College London University of London 9780745340456 9780745340463 9781786807939 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Pluto Press 256 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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description 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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