eBook

Disaster Anarchy

Rhiannon Firth

2022

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Subject: Anarchism / Anarchism and community / anarchism and disasters / Anarchism and women / Anarchism in everyday life / Anarchism in the 21st century / Anarchist response to crisis / anarchist utopia / Anarchists / anarcho-feminism / Anti-capitalism / Climate change / Climate crisis / Climate disasters / communisation / Community Building / community organizing / cooperative movement / cooperatives / counterinsurgency / Covid-19 / cybernetics / degrowth / direct action / disaster capitalism / Disaster relief / disaster risk reduction / disaster studies / disasters / Disasters & Disaster Relief / DiY politics / Dystopia / Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning / Emergency management / Environmental Science / female anarchist authors / Feminist anarchism / Grenfell tower / grenfell tower disaster / grenfell tower fire / hacktivism / How to be an anarchist / How to build a co-op / hurricane katrina / Hurricane sandy / Hurricanes / Intentional communities / Kropotkin / militant solidarity / Modern anarchism / Mutual aid / mutual aid programs / Mutual aid vs charity / Natural disasters / Occupy London / Occupy Movement / Occupy Sandy / Occupy Wall Street / open source / Political activism / Political engagement / Political Advocacy / Political Ideologies / Political Process / Political Science / Politics and government / Practical anarchism / Preppers / securitization / security studies / Social and ethical issues / Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made) / Social movements / Social Science / Social services and welfare, criminology / Social welfare and social services / Society and culture: general / Society and Social Sciences / Sociology / Surveillance capitalism / The environment / Utopianism / what is antifa? / what is disaster capitalism? / What is mutual aid
• ISBN: 9780745340463, 0745340466, 9780745340456, 0745340458, 1786807939, 9781786807939, 9781786807922, 1786807920