Reviews

Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community by Peer Illner

grubnubble's review

5.0

It’s rare to find a book so dedicated to tying our lived experience (positive or negative) to the material conditions that cause or allow for those experiences to happen. I appreciate that dedication and the clarity of ideas in this book. For such a short book, it’s quite dense, and despite it being from a Marxist feminist lens, there were only about two pages of feminist theory that went over my head. If you don’t know nothing about Marxism, I recommend you look up what the terms “dialectic” and “materialist” mean. Regardless of your knowledge of Marxism, you will definitely need a dictionary. I learned so many words!

The last chapter on 2020 is worth buying the book to read.