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Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback)
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Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback)
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'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to
system failures' - Peter Gelderloos 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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