Solidarity

David Featherstone is a senior lecturer in human geography at the University of Glasgow. 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.

• Introduction: Thinking solidarity politicallyPart I: Theorizing solidarity1 Solidarity: theorizing a transformative political relation2 Rethinking internationalismPart II: Colonial and anti-colonial internationalisms3 'Labour with a white skin will never emancipate itself while labour with a black skin is in bondage': maritime labour and the uses of solidarity4 'Your liberty and ours': black internationalism and anti-fascismPart III: Solidarity and Cold War geopolitics5 'No trade with the junta': political exile and solidarity after the Chilean coup6 'Beyond the barbed wire': European nuclear disarmament and non-aligned internationalismPart IV: Solidarity in the shadow of neoliberalism7 'Our resistance is as transnational as capital': the counter-globalization movement and prefigurative solidarity8 'If the climate were a bank it would be bailed out': solidarity and the making of climate justiceConclusion: Solidarity without guaranteesNotesReferencesIndex

Breaks new ground through Featherstone's critical, rigorous and highly engaging exploration of the forging of solidarity between disparate actors struggling to transform their lifeworlds. Through powerful and productive case studies, Featherstone illuminates solidarity as an ongoing - and potentially transformative - political relationship rather than merely a thing to be achieved. Well-written, knowledgeable, and provocative, this original work is a vital contribution to contemporary attempts not only to map and describe the fabric of social justice struggle but to explore what it means and why it matters.