We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself - Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones (Fremeaux Isabelle)(Paperback / softback)

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash started to blow, Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan deserted the metropolis, their academic jobs and entered a world of art and activism that seemed anchorless and without territory. They embarked on a journey across Europe searching for postcapitalist utopias. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared 'lost to the republic', known by those who inhabited and defended it as la ZAD (the 'zone to defend'): a messy, muddy, imperfect but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands owned by an airport. It was a place where, in 2018, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the capitalist project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance, building and fighting. We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself is the story of that place and its people. Fremeaux and
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