Chronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend), a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project
We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself
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Description
In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic, otherwise know as the zad (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.
Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory, inspired by a diverse array of approaches, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology, insurrectionary writings and radical art history.
Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.142 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 21.5 × 11 × 1.12 cm |
| Book_author | Fr?meaux, Isabelle |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Imprint | Pluto Press |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 160 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 303.4840944167 (edition:23) |
| Readership | Professional and scholarly / Code: H |
