{"product_id":"9781788738354","title":"Lifehouse: Building Care in the Long Emergency","description":"Author: Greenfield, Adam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781788738354\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are living through a long emergency - a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars and other climate-driven disasters. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Hope\u003c\/i\u003e explores the idea of local power as a response to climate-driven disasters. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-recovery effort in 2012, and the neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that sustained many during COVID lockdowns, to the large-scale, self-organised polities of municipalist Spain and Kurdish Rojava, the author uses examples of disaster recovery efforts, mutual aid groups and self-organised polities to argue that local power can be a means of developing individual and collective power and a way to thrive in the face of catastrophe. The book suggests that rethinking local power can be a bulwark against despair and help communities come together in a coherent way of life.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643221430430,"sku":"UBD-9781788738354","price":22.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781788738354.jpg?v=1774484524","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781788738354","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}