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Book SynopsisA Marxist-feminist approach examining disaster relief in the US
Trade Review'Tells a fascinating and insightful tale of how the state, increasingly unable and unwilling to care for its citizens, came to depend on community survival projects in the face of disaster'
-- Joshua Clover, author of Riot. Strike. Riot. (Verso, 2016)
'A searching enquiry, keyed to our age of pandemics and climate catastrophe, and an exemplary application of insights from Marxist Social Reproduction Theory'
-- Gareth Dale, author of Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
1. 2005: The Unclaimed Corpses
2. Vulnerability Beyond Resilience
3. Disasters and Social Reproduction
4. 1930: Disasters, Natural and Federal
5. 1970: The Black Panthers' Quest for Dual Power
6. 1995: Poverty, Crime and the Heat
7. 2012: The Strange Success of Occupy Sandy
8. The Separated Society
9. 2020: I Can't Breathe
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