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Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism
Author(s): David Featherstone (Author)
- Publisher: Zed Books
- Publication Date: 12 July 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848135963
- ISBN-13: 9781848135963
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Dave Featherstone evokes the restless energy of international solidarity actions as they repeatedly emerge in unexpected spaces, and are constantly reinvented in struggles against oppression. With impressive historical range, he shows us this has been going on for much longer than is often thought. –Jeremy Anderson, head of strategic research, International Transport Workers’ Federation
This book does much more than recover precious negated histories of solidarities built in the course of struggles against oppression. Solidarity is a timely, significant contribution to the theorizing of subaltern cosmopolitanisms that, without negating different histories and positioning, find common ground in strivings for equality, redistribution, and justice. –Nina Glick Schiller, director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures and professor of social anthropology, University of Manchester
