We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself (Isabelle Fremeax and Jay Jordan)
Channel: ReImaginingValue ActionLab
Date: 2021-09-13

A short book available from the VAGABONDS series of Pluto Press October 2021 - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345871/we-are-nature-defending-itself/

We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Engtangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
By Isabelle Fremeax and Jay Jordan

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash started to blow, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, embarking on a journey across Europe in search for postcapitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.
They arrived at a place French politicians had declared “lost to the republic”, known by those who inhabited it as la 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 infrastructure project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.
Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest
More information: https://vagabonds.xyz/wandi/