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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"mutual aid groups"”.
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Neighborhood Mutual Aid Groups and Spaces of Deviant Care
… orders. Many of these COVID19 neighborhood mutual aid groups were located in metropolitan areas experiencing simultaneous processes of gentrification, racial banishment, and displacement. The presence of these groups, especially those comprised mainly of white, young, gentrifiers challenged …
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We Work, We Eat Together: Anti-authoritarian Mutual Aid Politics in New York City, 2004-2013
… response to these changes: anti-authoritarian mutual aid groups that blend Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture with direct action politics. These are projects where activists attempt to build strong communities of resistance by organizing collective forms of social reproduction. I find that these …
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Describing Hunger-related Outcomes in a Community Kitchen located in the Pacific Northwest, United States
… 2012). Community kitchens (CK) are self-help/mutual aid groups that aim to address issues of hunger by collective participation in the obtainment, preparation, and often consumption of food (Tarasuk & Reynolds, 1999, p.13). There is a paucity of research on community kitchen (CK) initiatives …
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Co-Governing Care in Astoria, Queens: The Role and Responsibility of the City in Supporting Community-Led Solidarity Networks
… as unprecedented numbers of people mobilized mutual aid eff orts to help their neighbors survive. While many mutual aid groups have since disbanded or experienced burnout, others have sustained the work, helping to establish alternative infrastructures of collective care. Taking Astoria, …
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Collective Action and the Production of Alternatives in the Crisis-ridden European South: Understanding the Politics of Commoning and Solidarity through the Greek Experience
… workers’ cooperatives, collective kitchens and mutual-aid groups are only some of the most palpable grassroots responses. Responding to the calls for more attention to be paid to the political and productive dimensions of collective action, this thesis investigates the creation of grassroots …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… questionnaires, in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation and the analysis of secondary data. The results suggest that Chinese smallholder agriculture has been dramatically transformed by an array of socio-economic forces. The “intensive, sustainable, diverse” Chinese …
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Hope as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: The Communication Processes Facilitating Hope at a Community-Based Support Program
… and supportive communication, narrative, and mutual aid groups, there are no studies that focus on emergent hope or the communication processes facilitating hope. Hope is widely accepted as critical to life and wellness. However, there is a gap in the existing literature across disciplines …