Disaster anarchy : mutual aid and radical action / / Rhiannon Firth

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822527503321
• Autore: Firth Rhiannon <1980->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Pluto Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9781786807922; 9780745340456
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Disciplina: 335.83
• Soggetti: Anarchists; Disaster relief; Emergency management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- 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.