| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Contemporary anarchist studies
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Contemporary anarchist studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homelessness -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century.
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Homelessness. |
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California -- San Francisco. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Social action -- California -- San Francisco -- 20th century.
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Social action. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parson, Sean. Cooking up a revolution. Food not bombs, homes not jails, and resistance to gentrification. Manchester : Manchester University Press 2018 9781526107350 (OCoLC)1054398009 |
| ISBN |
9781526108104 (electronic book) |
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1526108100 (electronic book) |
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1526142023 (electronic book) |
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9781526142023 (electronic book) |
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9781526107350 |
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152610735X |
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