Pandemic Solidarity (eBook)

Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis

Colectiva Sembrar, Marina Sitrin (Herausgeber)

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2020
304 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4320-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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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.

Autor

lt;p>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).

Inhalt

Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

Introduction by Marina Sitrin

About Colectiva Sembrar

1.Greater Middle East: Rojava - Khabat Abbas and Emre Sahin; Turkey - Seyma Ozdemir; Iraq - Midya Khudhur

2. South and East Asia: Taiwan - Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang; South Korea - Ji Young Shin (translated by Han Gil Jang); India - Debarati Roy

3. Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique - Boaventura Monjane

4. Europe: Portugal - Lais Gomes Duarte and Raquel Lima; Italy - Eleanor Finley; Greece - EP & TP; UK - Neil Howard

5. Turtle Island (North America): Canada, the USA and Mexico - Magalí Rabasa and Carla Bergman with Ariella Patchen and Seyma Ozdemir

6. South America: Argentina - Nancy Viviana Piñeiro and Liz Mason-Deese; Brazil - Vanessa Zeteler

Concluding to Begin by Marina Sitrin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: FireWorks
• Vorwort: Rebecca Solnit
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Community • Community Health • Coronavirus • Covid-19 • food distribution • Health Care • media narratives • mutual-aid • personal stories • Public Health • Rojava • viral pandemic
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4320-1 / 0745343201
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4320-4 / 9780745343204