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Lifehouse

Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

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How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisis

We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought together in a single, coherent way of life?

Using examples from the Black Panthers' "survival programs," the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns to the large-scale, self-organized polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, Greenfield argues for rethinking local power as a bulwark against despair-a way to discover and develop the individual and collective capacities that have gone underutilized during all the long years of late capitalism, and a means for thriving in the face of impending catastrophe.

©2024 Adam Greenfield (P)2024 Tantor Philanthropy & Charity Social Classes & Economic Disparity Social Sciences Sociology
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A very difficult listen through the first couple of chapters of context setting - to put it bluntly, were all F@&#fd. However, many are familiar with these arguments and these chapters can be skipped. Get to the meat of the solution and find what genuinely looks possibly and well considered, even perhaps offering a practical tool to doughnut and degrowth economics. a recommended read. I'm off to set up a community workshop!

A practical response to the polycrisis.

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