<p>'Just what we need so desperately in this moment. How we come out of this pandemic will shape the future of humanity. Now, as never before, we have to break the deadly logic of capital. A beautiful and important book.'</p>

- John Holloway, author of 'Change the World Without Taking Power',

<p>'In the midst of a global crisis, we must listen, learn, and build with people from around the world - the essays and insights collected here help us do just that. A crisis is a turning point, and this valuable book can serve as a guide to a better future.'</p>

- Astra Taylor, director of 'What Is Democracy?',

<p>'These stories teach us of the enormous potential for love and resistance in a world threatened by apocalyptic capitalism.'</p>

- Mike Davis, author of 'City of Quartz',

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<p>'Mutual aid, solidarity and commoning become most visible during periods of deep crises. This book inspires us all on the path to social change.'</p>

- Massimo De Angelis, author of 'Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism',

<p>'If you take a break from doom-scrolling to read Pandemic Solidarity you’ll learn how we launched the largest mobilization of mutual aid projects in history'</p>

- Indypendent,

<p>‘Helps us to rethink and re-imagine an egalitarian society where no one is left behind’</p>

- ‘LSE Review of Books’,

In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of Covid-19. The world’s media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice. Looking at eighteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, Taiwan, South Africa, Iraq and North America, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience - a housewife in Istanbul supports her neighbour in the same way as a teacher in Argentina, a punk in Portland, and a disability activist in South Korea does. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility.
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What happens when our society is faced with an existential crisis?
List of Figures Series Preface Foreword by Rebecca Solnit Introduction by Marina Sitrin About Colectiva Sembrar PART I - GREATER MIDDLE EAST (ROJAVA, TURKEY AND IRAQ) 1. Communal Lifeboat: Direct Democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) - Emre Sahin and Khabat Abbas 2. “Capitalism Kills, Solidarity Gives Life”: A Glimpse of Solidarity Networks from Turkey - Seyma Özdemir 3. Solidarity Network in Iraq During Covid-19: This Time the Enemy is Invisible - Midya Khudhur PART II - SOUTH AND EAST ASIA (TAIWAN, SOUTH KOREA AND INDIA) 4. Sharing Spaces and Crossing Borders: Voices from Taiwan - Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang 5. Standing in Solidarity with Those Who Must Refuse to Keep Social Distance: Disability Activism in South Korea - Ji Young Shin (translated by Han Gil Jang) 6. Rethinking Minority and Mainstream in India - Debarati Roy PART III - SOUTHERN AFRICA (MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE) 7. Confronting State Authoritarianism: Civil Society and Community-Based Solidarity in Southern Africa - Boaventura Monjane PART IV - EUROPE (PORTUGAL, GREECE, ITALY AND THE UK) 8. On Intersectional Solidarity in Portugal - Lais Gomes Duarte and Raquel Lima 9. Solidarity Flourishes Under Lockdown in Italy - Eleanor Finley 10. Solidarity Networks in Greece - EP and TP 11. Viral Solidarity: Experiences from the UK - Neil Howard PART V - TURTLE ISLAND (NORTH AMERICA) 12. Turtle Island - carla bergman and magalí rabasa with Ariella - Patchen and Seyma Özdemir PART VI - SOUTH AMERICA (ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL) 13. Argentina: Injustices Magnified; Memories of Resistance Reactivated - Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese 14. On Grassroots Organizing: Excerpts from Brazil - Vanessa Zettler Concluding to Begin - Colectiva Sembrar Notes on Contributors Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780745343174
Publisert
2020-06-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Pluto Press
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
Crossover, 01, G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304

Foreword by

Biographical note

Marina Sitrin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton, New York. She is the author of 'Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina' (AK Press, 2006); 'Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina' (Zed Books, 2012), the co-author of 'They Can’t Represent US! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy' (Verso, 2014).

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, and hope and disaster, including 'A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster' (Penguin, 2010) and 'Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities' (Haymarket, 2016).