Cooking up a revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2018

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Book Size:
160 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781526108104
Related ISBNs:
9781526108111, 9781526107350, 9781526148025, 9781526108111, 9781526107350, 9781526148025
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, Social Studies, Sociology
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