Andrew Lee

Defying Displacement (eBook, ePUB)

Urban Recomposition and Social War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Avoids easy scapegoats. There are bigger forces involved in gentrification than the hipsters and artists who become easy targets for the real culprits to hide behind.
• Crucially important topic. Gentrification is underway in countless cities in the US and around the world. There is almost no potential reader who is unaware of or unaffected by it.
• Offers solutions beyond moral self-righteousness or ethical consumption. Defying Displacement cuts through the fog of false solutions that leave root causes untouched.
• Ties together social movements. Lee demonstrates how housing struggles are not peripheral to the real work of workplace organizing or political party-building, but the leading edge of the confrontation we face today. His book is an effort to rearticulate the relationship between different parts of the wider movement, to provoke new consideration of how we might fight alongside one another for lives that are dignified and sustainable and free.
• Specific ties to multiple cities. The book is based in part on interviews with dozens of activists in cities across the country, so it contains material of interest to various markets, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
• Course adoption potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849355254
• Artikelnr.: 67593256

Autorenporträt

Andrew Lee has been involved with grassroots anti-displacement campaigns in San José, California. He currently lives in Philadelphia, where he continues to work on similar issues. He has written for Yes! Magazine, Teen Vogue, and The Progressive and serves as Managing Editor for The Anti-Racism Daily.