{"product_id":"lifehouse-by-adam-greenfield-9781788738354","title":"Lifehouse","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are living through a long emergency - a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. \u003cem\u003eBeyond Hope\u003c\/em\u003e explores the idea of local power as a response to climate-driven disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-recovery effort in 2012, and the neighbourhood-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book suggests that rethinking local power can be a bulwark against despair and help communities come together in a coherent way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854639911148,"sku":"9781788738354","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ec219e4e4753aeeb3f7a05a30dad478b.jpg?v=1759267011","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lifehouse-by-adam-greenfield-9781788738354","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}