Pandemic Solidarity (eBook, ePUB)

Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Redaktion: Sitrin, Marina; Sembrar, Colectiva

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745343181
• Artikelnr.: 59629555

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, 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).

Inhaltsangabe

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