Beyond Hope - Collective Power and Mutual Care in the Long Emergency (Hardcover)

We are living through a long emergency - a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars and other climate-driven disasters. Beyond Hope explores the idea of local power as a response to climate-driven disasters. From the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-recovery effort in 2012, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns, to the large-scale, self-organised polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, the author uses examples of disaster recovery efforts, mutual aid groups and self-organised polities to argue that local power can be a means of developing individual and collective power and a way to thrive in the face of catastrophe. The book suggests that rethinking local power can be a bulwark against despair and help communities come together in a coherent way of life.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2024
Authors:	Adam Greenfield
Dimensions:	210 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-1-78873-835-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78873-835-7
Barcode:	9781788738354

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