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Friends in Common

Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Laura C. Forster, Joel White, Laura C. Forster

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Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores friendship as a radical practice, capable of upending hierarchies and producing social change.Friendship can transcend social boundaries and political borders. It is vital in building communities and underpinning solidarity. But its transformative potency ensures that it is heavily policed and restrained by the state. Understanding the radical possibilities of friendship can help us rethink our approach to family, work and politics, and show us new routes to resistance and ways to open up spaces of solidarity and escape.The dissonance created by comparing societal expectations around friendship and a lonely reality, especially in the wake of an isolating global pandemic, is deeply alienating. Friends in Common shows that friendship as a political practice is foundational to strengthening revolutionary ideas and projects, and is the antidote to capitalist despair.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-06-20
Mått190 x 198 x 130 mm
Vikt93 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFireWorks
Antal sidor288
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745350585

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhalle och politik
Relationer inom Halsa och familj

Laura C. Forster is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York. Her research is concerned with intimacy, radical ideas, and political activism in the long nineteenth century. Laura has written for Tribune, ROAR, DOPE and Novara Media. She lives in Newcastle and is part of Food & Solidarity.Joel White is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is involved with groups in the city that organise around mutual aid, migrant solidarity, prison abolition and anti-racism. His writing has appeared in Guardian, Wire, Tribune and the LRB blog. He co-runs the record label GLARC.