Pandemic Solidarity

Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis

Marina Sitrin, Colectiva Sembrar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2020
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4316-7 (ISBN)

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What happens when our society is faced with an existential crisis?

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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	FireWorks
Vorwort	Rebecca Solnit
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 26 Figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7453-4316-3 / 0745343163
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-4316-7 / 9780745343167
Zustand	Neuware