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SUMMARY:Against fire and ICE: the lifehouse as community defence
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (Thai Theatre\
 , Cheng Kin Ku Building)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 12 November 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerDr Adam Greenfiel
 dDiscussantsProfessor Gargi BhattacharyyaDr Dubravka SekulićChairDr David
  MaddenMany neighbourhoods and communities today face multiple catastrophe
 s at once. Climate emergency and violent authoritarianism often compound e
 ach other.This talk starts from the premise that the measures a community 
 takes to defend itself against climate-system collapse are also useful for
  surviving authoritarian rule. The same room that might cool elderly neigh
 bours during a heat wave can host a legal briefing. A neighbourhood commun
 ications network built to hold its own against grid failure can continue o
 perating when official channels become unreliable or hostile. The principl
 e is what professional emergency managers calls “all-hazards preparednes
 s” — but grounded in the understanding that some hazards wear badges. 
 In this event\, we’ll examine how communities develop the capacity to re
 spond to complex interlocking crises. And by exploring the idea of the lif
 ehouse\, we will ask how that collective capacity can be made durable.Meet
  our speaker and discussantsAdam Greenfield is Visiting Professor of Socio
 logy at LSE. A writer\, urbanist and host of the Lifepod podcast\, his mos
 t recent book is Lifehouse: Taking care of ourselves in a world on fire (V
 erso\, 2024).Gargi Bhattacharyya is Director of the Sarah Parker Remind Ce
 ntre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at UCL. They are the author
  of a number of books including: Rethinking Racial Capitalism (Rowan and L
 ittlefield\, 2018)\,  The Future of Racial Capitalism (Polity\, 2023) and 
 the multi-authored  Empire's Endgame (Pluto\, 2021).Dubravka Sekulić is a
 n spatial practitioner\, theorist and educator. Her work connects spatial 
 knowledges and political emancipation\, thinking with solidarities and str
 uggles from below. She is writing Minor Planning: Spatial politics for a l
 iberated future. With Christina Leigh Geros\, she is co-leading of a new E
 nvironmental Architecture and Urban Design MA at the Royal College of Art.
 David Madden is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Citie
 s Programme at LSE. He is the author\, with Peter Marcuse\, of In Defense 
 of Housing (Verso\, second ed. 2024).Any questions?If you have a query\, c
 ontact us at sociology.media@lse.ac.uk.From time to time there are changes
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