| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Contemporary anarchist studies |
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Contemporary anarchist studies.
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| Contents |
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 politics in San Francisco; The homeless fight back: the politics of homeless resistance |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Zero hunger |
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activism |
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anarchism |
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food politics |
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gentrification |
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homelessness |
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political theory |
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social movements |
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squatting |
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urban politics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homelessness -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century
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Social action -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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COOKING -- History.
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Homelessness
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Social action
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
California -- San Francisco
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526108104 |
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1526108100 |
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1526142023 |
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9781526142023 |
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