ISBN:
978-1-5261-0735-0
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152610735X
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 147 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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24 cm.
Series Statement:
Contemporary anarchist studies
Keywords:
San Francisco (Calif.) / Social conditions / 20th century
;
California / San Francisco
;
1900-1999
;
Homelessness / California / San Francisco / 20th century
;
Social action / California / San Francisco / 20th century
;
Homelessness
;
Social action
;
Social conditions
Abstract:
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
Note:
Turning statistics into people : from sick talk to the politics of solidarity --
,
What dumpstered soup tells us about violence, charity, and politics --
,
Parks, permits, and riot police : understanding the politics of public space occupations 1988-1991 --
,
The war against the homeless : Frank Jordan, broken windows, and anti-homeless in San Francisco --
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The homeless fight back : the politics of homeless resistance --
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Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation : Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification --
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Towards an anarchist "right to the city"
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Theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance
