Solidarity in practice : moral protest and the US security state / Chandra Russo, Colgate University, New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russo, Chandra, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--United States.

Protest movements.

Solidarity.

Solidarity--Political aspects.

United States.

Solidarity--Political aspects--United States.

Solidarity--United States--Religious aspects.

National security--United States.

National security.

Solidarity--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors, in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high risk forms of activism (fasting, pilgrimage, civil disobedience). She explores their ideas of solidarity and witnessing, which are central to how the activists explain their activities. This book adds to our understanding of solidarity activism under new global arrangements and illuminates the features of movement activity that deepen activists' commitment by helping their lives feel more humane, just and meaningful. Based on participant observation, interviews, surveys and hundreds of courtroom statements, Russo develops a new theorization of solidarity that will take a central place in social movement studies.

Contents:

"Not free to be completely human"

"I'm ruined for life!" Witnessing empire

Ritual protest as testimony

The visceral logics of embodied resistance

Ascetic practice and prefigurative community

The complications of solidarity witness

"Knowing things impossible to un-known".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108460996

1108460992

9781108473118

1108473113

OCLC:

1042358696

Publisher Number:

40028711144