Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan: We are 'Nature' defending itself: Entangling art, activism and autonomous zones. London, Pluto Press 2022.
Book review by Alexander Dunlap.
The book is about the the Zone-to-Defend (ZAD, Zones d'Aménagement Différé [deferred development zones] or just Zones à défendre) that was a decades long struggle against a big airport outside Nantes. It was among the most important, intense and long-lasting territorial struggles in Europe.
Having been circulating in these spaces, conversations and living in another ZAD the last decade, this book review was among the most difficult and conflictive I have written to date, which becomes apparent after summarizing the book. For whatever it is worth, this review expresses my position on the death or regularization of the ZAD.
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Alexander Antony Dunlap was Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Development and the Environment, 2019-2023.