Firth, Rhiannon; (2019) Book Review: Nangwaya, Ajamu, and Michael Truscello (eds), Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-first Century Resistance. [Review]. Anarchist Studies , 27 (1) pp. 121-123.

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This book offers an excellent and wide-ranging contribution linking poverty to resistance from a variety of radical theoretical and geographical perspectives drawing examples and inspiration from very diverse social movements. Whilst most of the chapters appear to be broadly anarchist or autonomist, they cover a very broad spectrum. It might have been useful for the sake of coherence, had the editors provided a more explicit overview of the theoretical diversity of the book and the basis upon which contributions were selected, and given some consideration to theoretical affinities and tensions across the chapters. This might also have given more of a clue as to the contribution of the book to wider debates in anarchism and radical thought. Nonetheless, the diversity of perspectives taken as a whole provides an intersectional critique that does not privilege class nor any single identity category as a primary axis of oppression but rather offers multiple perspectives on complex and overlapping forms of oppression and resistance.

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