Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism – David Featherstone

Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism

Author: David Featherstone

Publisher: Zed Books

Print Length: 320 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Geography, Political Science

Topic: Solidarity, Activism, History, Internationalism, Neoliberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Social Movement, Non-Aligned Movement, Labor & Contract, Black People, Boycott, Slavery, Fascism

Despite the frequency with which the word ‘solidarity’ is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. 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.

Presenting a variety of case studies, from anti-slavery and anti-fascist organizing to climate change activism and the boycotts of Coca-Cola, Featherstone unearths international forms of solidarity that are all too often marginalized by nation-centred histories of the left and social movements.

Timely and wide-ranging, this is a fascinating investigation of an increasingly vital subject.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking Solidarity Politically

PART ONE (1): THEORIZING SOLIDARITY

1. Solidarity: theorizing a transformative political relation

2. Rethinking internationalism

PART TWO (2): COLONIAL AND ANTI-COLONIAL INTERNATIONALISM

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

4. ‘Your liberty and ours’: black internationalism and anti-fascism

PART THREE (3): SOLIDARITY AND COLD WAR GEOPOLITICS

5. ‘No trade with the junta’: political exile and solidarity after the Chilean coup

6. ‘Beyond the barbed wire’: European nuclear disarmament and non-aligned internationalism

PART FOUR (4); SOLIDARITY IN THE SHADOW OF NEOLIBERALISM

7. ‘Our resistance is as transnational as capital’: the counter-globalization movement and prefigurative solidarity

8. ‘If the climate were a bank it would be bailed out’: solidarity and the making of climate justice

Conclusion: Solidarity without guarantees

Notes

References

Index

David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, previously at the University of Liverpool. He has key research interests in space, politics and resistance in both the past and present. He is the author of Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks and co-editor of Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey.

Source: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/david-featherstone/

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