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Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

Greenfield, Adam

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General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1788738357
ISBN13: 9781788738354
Publisher: Verso
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.13 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
A manifesto and guide for building mutual aid groups and reclaiming power in a time of perpetual crisis

We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?

Using examples from the Black Panthers' survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns to the large-scale, self-organised polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, Greenfield argues for rethinking local power as a bulwark against despair -- a way to discover and develop the individual and collective capacities that have gone underutilized during all the long years of late capitalism, and a means for thriving in the face of impending catastrophe.

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