Solidarity : Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism / David Featherstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Featherstone, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked, the concept itself has rarely been scrutinized. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative combination of archival research, activist testimonies and first-hand involvement with political movements. Solidarity presents a variety of case studies, from anti-slavery and anti-fascist organizing to climate change activism and the boycotts of Coca-Cola.

Contents:

About the author; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking solidarity politically; Thinking solidarity; Constructing internationalism from below; Part I: Theorizing solidarity; 1 Solidarity: theorizing a transformative political relation; The makings of solidarity; Subaltern geographies of connection; Thinking a transformative political relation; Conclusion: solidarity as a universalizing relation; 2 Rethinking internationalism; Internationalism beyond the nation; Subaltern cosmopolitanism and internationalism; Placing internationalism; Spatial logics of internationalism.

Conclusion: recovering connectionsPart II: Colonial and anti-colonial internationalisms; 3 'Labour with a white skin will never emancipate itself while labour with a black skin is in bondage': maritime labour and the uses of solidarity; Maritime organizing, white labourism and the limits of solidarity; 'A fighting international of marine labour'; Black internationalism and maritime labour; Conclusion; 4 'Your liberty and ours': black internationalism and anti-fascism; Anti-fascist trajectories; Black internationalist maps of grievance of the Spanish Civil War; Forging solidarities in Spain.

ConclusionPart III: Solidarity and Cold War geopolitics; 5 'No trade with the junta': political exile and solidarity after the Chilean coup; Constructing solidarities and the geopolitics of the Cold War; 'Now the generals rule Chile / And the British have their thanks / For they rule with Hawker Hunters / And they rule with Chieftain Tanks'; Folk music has no borders; Conclusion; 6 'Beyond the barbed wire': European nuclear disarmament and non-aligned internationalism; Solidarity 'beyond the Cold War'; END and the spatial politics of non-alignment; Constructing non-aligned solidarities.

ConclusionPart IV: Solidarity in the shadow of neoliberalism; 7 'Our resistance is as transnational as capital': the counter-globalization movement and prefigurative solidarity; Making prefigurative solidarities; The 'Battle of Seattle', whiteness and contested organizing practices; Transnational feminism and the World Social Forum; Prefigurative geographies of connection; Conclusion; 8 'If the climate were a bank it would be bailed out': solidarity and the making of climate justice; Contested maps of grievance; Climate justice and the formation of solidarities.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613726889

9781350222670

1350222674

9781780324951

1780324952

9781280885570

1280885572

9781848135970

1848135971

OCLC:

798530252