Disaster Anarchy : Mutual Aid and Radical Action

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910586573003321
• Autore: Firth Rhiannon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Pluto Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-78680-793-9; 1-78680-792-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.348
• Soggetti: Emergency management; Anarchists; Disaster relief
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Interviewees -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Backdrop: Mainstream Disaster Studies -- 3 Critical Approaches: Precarity, Securitisation and Disaster Capitalism -- 4 Towards an Anarchist Approach to Disaster -- 5 Occupy Sandy Mutual Aid, New York, 2012 -- 6 Covid-19 Mutual Aid, London, 2020 -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: As disasters become more commonplace, we need to think of alternatives for relief.