Weaving Solidarity – Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche

Sebastian Garbe, born in 1986, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, where he is the coordinator of the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences. He also works as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, where he completed his doctorate in 2020. His teaching and research were awarded with the Dr.-Herbert-Stolzenberg-Award for the Study of Culture in 2017 and 2020 and focuses on post- and decolonial theory as well as on protest and social movements.

• Introduction: Still Loving Solidarity?; Theorising Solidarity and New Transnational Social Movements; An Ethnography of and in Solidarity; Solidarity and the Transnational Cultural Politics of Autonomy; Transnational Mapuche Advocacy; A Critique of Whiteness and Maputhusiasm in Solidarity; Critical Practices and Assemblages of Solidarity; Conclusion; Epilogue: Towards a Reconstitution; References; Appendix; List of Figures; List of Tables.

»Dieses Buch [ist] sowohl für die Fachgemeinschaft der transnationalen Bewegungsforschung als auch für Aktivist*innen, die sich in diversen internationalen Solidaritätsnetzwerken engagieren, aufschlussreich. Es motiviert, gängige Verständnis- und Wahrnehmungsformen von Solidarität zu hinterfragen.«