California Series in Public Anthropology- Anti-Eviction

"In Anti-Eviction, Manissa Maharawal brings readers inside the housing justice movement in a crucial time and place: the San Francisco tech boom of the 2010s. The city prefigured the crisis that has gone national since, and this beautifully written book not only shows how activists fought back, but demonstrates the power of activist researchers to put their expertise to work changing the world. This is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, driven by narrative and characters you won't forget, while illuminating the complicated roots of today's housing crisis."—Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone "With Anti-Eviction, Maharawal delivers a major new contribution to the study of protests and social movements. Her ethnographic insights will be as essential to activists and policymakers as they are to scholars."—Samuel Stein, author of Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State "From the Google bus past to the technofascist present, Maharawal dissects the forces evicting ordinary people from our cities while showing in compelling ethnographic detail how these forces can be resisted—and why they must be. Beautifully relaying the lives and struggles of working-class San Franciscans, Anti-Eviction is politically vital and strategically essential reading."—Don Mitchell, author of Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital "Anti-Eviction is a must-read in this political moment for anyone looking for leftist resistance. From the inside of the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco, Maharawal gives us the nuts and bolts of how to build a successful housing justice movement through deep relationships, storytelling, direct action, and a politics of collective…