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 San Francisco waged a war with the homeless. During this period over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply handing out free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book uses the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of urban politics, 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 both activists, students, and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• 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