Cooking up a revolution : food not bombs, homes not jails, and resistance to gentrification / / Sean Parson

• Autore: Parson Sean
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Disciplina: 362.59097946109045
• Soggetto topico: Homelessness - California - San Francisco; Homeless persons - Government policy; Food relief - California - San Francisco
• Soggetto geografico: San Francisco (Calif.) Social conditions
• Soggetto non controllato: Zero hunger; activism; anarchism; food politics; gentrification; homelessness; political theory; social movements; squatting; urban politics
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2019.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Turning statistics into people : from sick talk to the politics of solidarity -- What dumpstered soup tells us about violence, charity, and politics -- Parks, permits, and riot police : understanding the politics of public space occupations 1988-1991 -- The war against the homeless : Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless in San Francisco -- The homeless fight back : the politics of homeless resistance -- Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation : Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification -- Towards an anarchist "right to the city" -- Coda. Theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance.
• Sommario/riassunto: During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cooking up a revolution
• ISBN: 1-5261-0811-9; 1-5261-4202-3; 1-5261-0810-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793283603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary anarchist studies (Manchester, England)