Sean Parson

Cooking up a revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526108111
• Artikelnr.: 56524027

Autorenporträt

Sean Parsons is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University

Inhaltsangabe

1 Turning statistics into people: From sick talk to the politics of solidarity 2 What dumpstered soup tells us about violence
charity
and politics 3 Parks
permits
and riot police: Understanding the politics of public space occupations and negotiated management policing between the city of San Francisco and Food Not Bombs 4 The war against the homeless: Frank Jordan
broken windows
and anti-homeless politics in San Francisco 5 The Homeless fight back: The politics of homeless resistance 6 Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation: Homes Not Jails
urban squatting
and gentrification 7 Towards an anarchist "Right to the City" Coda: Theses on homelessness
public space
and urban resistance Bibliography