Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Flooded People UK
The water is coming. By 2050 8 million homes in England will be at risk of flooding - that’s *one in four*! But for hundreds of UK communities this existential threat has already arrived.
Flooded People UK is an innovative organising project which aims to recast the people in flood-hit places from passive victims into active citizens with expertise, collective interdependence, and policy demands. I talk to FPUK organisers Harry and Sanjay to learn about this project’s unusual movement composition, the work it does, and its orientation in the bigger stories of climate and collapse.
We cover:
How FP is a convergence of the cultures of professional disaster management with the grassroots climate movement
What FP does: creating national scale political pressure, alongside fostering networks of direct support within and between flooded communities
How flooding can impact a person, household and community
Re-imagining the policy position of flooded people - into a proactive political constituency
What needs to be done policy-wise
How climate framing is and isn’t valuable in flooded contexts
How mitigation relates to adaptation
Thoughts on Kollapscamp and its collapse framing
See more at
floodedpeople.org.uk
End music:
People Gonna Rise Like Water, sung by XR Bristol
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