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Cooking up a revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification

Cooking up a revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and resistance to gentrification - Contemporary Anarchist Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of 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 activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes. This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger.

About the Publisher

Manchester University Press

Founded in 1904, MUP is the third largest University Press in England and publishes monographs and textbooks by authors from all over the world. Currently publishing 145 new books a year and managing a portfolio of 14 journals as well as an extensive backlist of over 1000 titles, the Press sells more than 150,000 books each year to a global audience. The Press exports some 50 percent of output to more than 60 countries using representatives in Britain, Ireland and Europe and agents elsewhere including North America, Canada and Australia.

Book information

ISBN: 9781526148025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 362.59097946109045
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 192
Weight: 250g
Height: 233mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 12mm