Building off of the experiences and analyses of people fighting gentrification across the US and around the world, Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War uses resistance to urban displacement to ground a new theory of the state and capitalism. Now available from the Institute for Anarchist Studies and AK Press.
Praise for Defying Displacement
“This book could be extremely useful to activists. Keep using the enemy's own history against them. This ain't capitalist 'progress,' it's class warfare and ethnic cleansing. Let's organize the hood! All power to the people!”
— Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, author of Anarchism and the Black Revolution
“Andrew deftly outlines the urgency of the housing crisis by centering those that should always be at the crux of the conversation, and calls for the radical resistance that displacement deserves.”
— Nicole Cardoza, founder of The ARD
“Regardless of where they are reading from, readers will be able to understand this subject with a fresh appreciation of how global struggles past, present, and future are linked by the making and unmaking of cities.”
— Ayesha Siddiqui, editor in chief of The New Inquiry
“This book shows how a fight for the city can mean the fight for total liberation, and is a needful resource for all those who fight for and dream of a better world.”
— Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting
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