Pandemic Solidarity : Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- FireWorks Series .
- FireWorks Series .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Preface -- Foreword - Rebecca Solnit -- Introduction - Marina Sitrin -- About Colectiva Sembrar -- Part I: Greater Middle East (Rojava, Turkey and Iraq) -- 1. Communal Lifeboat: Direct Democracy in Rojava (NE Syria) - Emre Sahin and Khabat Abbas -- 2. "Capitalism Kills, Solidarity Gives Life": A Glimpse of Solidarity Networks from Turkey - Seyma Ozdemir -- 3. Solidarity Network in Iraq During Covid-19: This Time the Enemy is Invisible - Midya Khudhur -- Part II: South and East Asia (Taiwan, South Korea and India) -- 4. Sharing Spaces and Crossing Borders: Voices from Taiwan - Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang -- 5. Standing in Solidarity with Those Who Must Refuse to Keep Social Distance: Disability Activism in South Korea - Ji Young Shin (translated by Han Gil Jang) -- 6. Rethinking Minority and Mainstream in India - Debarati Roy -- Part III: Southern Africa (Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe) -- 7. Confronting State Authoritarianism: Civil Society and Community-Based Solidarity in Southern Africa - Boaventura Monjane -- Part IV: Europe (Portugal, Greece, Italy and the UK) -- 8. On Intersectional Solidarity in Portugal - Lais Gomes Duarte and Raquel Lima -- 9. Solidarity Flourishes Under Lockdown in Italy - Eleanor Finley -- 10. Solidarity Networks in Greece - EP and TP -- 11. Viral Solidarity: Experiences from the UK - Neil Howard -- Part V: Turtle Island (North America) -- 12. Turtle Island - carla bergman and magali rabasa with Ariella Patchen and Seyma Ozdemir -- Part VI: South America (Argentina and Brazil) -- 13. Argentina: Injustices Magnified -- Memories of Resistance Reactivated - Nancy Viviana Pineiro and Liz Mason-Deese -- 14. On Grassroots Organizing: Excerpts from Brazil - Vanessa Zettler -- Concluding to Begin -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
What happens when our society is faced with an existential crisis?.