{"product_id":"lifehouse-isbn-9781788738354","title":"Lifehouse","description":"\u003cb\u003eA manifesto and guide for building mutual aid groups and reclaiming power in a time of perpetual crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\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. In \u003ci\u003eLifehouse\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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-organised 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.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Long Emergency\u003cbr\u003e2 Mutual Care\u003cbr\u003e3 Collective Power\u003cbr\u003e4 Beyond Hope\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Mixing clear-eyed, unwavering analysis with deep compassion, \u003ci\u003eLifehouse\u003c\/i\u003e offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jenny Odell, author of \u003ci\u003eSaving Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When three emergencies -- climate, political and social - build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than AG. \u003ci\u003eLifehouse \u003c\/i\u003econstructs a much needed, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Eyal Weizman, author of \u003ci\u003eHollowland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A succinct, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us, and a nuanced, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate, local, collective direct action.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dean Spade, author of \u003ci\u003eMutual Aid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone interested in collective survival will benefit from Greenfield's examinations of episodes of transformative communal care from New Orleans and NYC, Rojava, municipalist Spain, Greek solidarity clinics, and the Black Panthers' survival programs. That he then knots the threads of permanent disaster and local response into a clear-eyed proposal for enduring networks of mutual support networks is something like hope-in-action-refreshing, provocative, and within our reach.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Erin Kissane, co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Knowing we can't rely upon governments, corporations or elites to protect us from the ongoing disasters we now face, above all climate change, Adam Greenfeld movingly celebrates the grass-roots mutual aid and caring collectivities that have sustained people through past calamities. Aware that such self-organised, compassionate caring is more needed than ever today, Greenfield's vivid, erudite and persuasive prose outlines the many ways in which people can, and for their own survival must, work together confronting the challenging goal of creating local autonomous communities, or Lifehouses, now necessary for enduring the storms ahead. An inspiring text in pessimistic times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lynne Segal, author of \u003ci\u003eLean on Me: A Radical Politics of Care\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Greenfield explains how people, with their inherent adaptability, should reorganise and self-manage to cope with changing conditions and a harsher world with less room for everyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eProtect Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Greenfield] arguments are not presented as stemming from an ideological attachment to anarchism but from cold-eyed pragmatism: he is not asking whether the state should ideally provide for people but whether ‘it is likely to’.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Hannah Proctor, \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Greenfield\u003c\/b\u003e has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the place where technology, design and politics intersect with everyday urban life. Formerly Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities research center of the London School of Economics, and an instructor in urban design at both New York University and the Bartlett, University College London, his books include the best-selling \u003ci\u003eRadical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2017),\u003ci\u003e Against the Smart City\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eEveryware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302174839013,"sku":"NP9781788738354","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788738354.jpg?v=1767731450","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lifehouse-isbn-9781788738354","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}