...Serhat Karakayali In the course of the so-called refugee crisis, millions of German citizens began volunteering for refugees. What emerged was a broad movement quite different from previous solidarity movements. The focus on humanitarian help and on integration measures and the lack of ideological...

...Esra Erdem; Kamuran Akın This article addresses the current restructuring of academia in Turkey through the example of the Academics for Peace petition and the institutional mechanisms of repression it instigated. We focus on the Solidarity Academies as alternative spaces of education and a unique...

... . 2019 . “ Nabatieh Rises against Hezbollah and Amal .” Arab News , October 26 . arabnews.com/node/1574416/middle-east . A G A I N S T the D A Y Karim Makdisi Lebanon s October 2019 Uprising: From Solidarity to Division and Descent into the Known Unknown This dossier examines the early promise...

... Nielsen , Acts of Citizenship , 182 – 207 . Diana Allan “This Is Not a Politics”: Solidarity and Subterfuge in Palestinian Refugee Communities in Lebanon This article addresses forms of agency and activ- ism that do not t prevailing...

...Cihan Tekay This essay provides an analysis of international initiatives organized in solidarity with the protests at Boğaziçi University that erupted shortly after the appointment of a new rector on January 1, 2021. It provides an overview of these initiatives by using data from anonymous...

...Lori Allen This essay analyzes some key moments of transnational Palestinian solidarity politics as a basis for considering the possibilities for challenging the status quo ignited by the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Throughout modern Palestinian history, political efforts...

...Olga Lafazani This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show...

... emerged with the closure of the borders as a solidarity project that critiques NGOization. In its two years of operation, it has challenged both the depoliticization of assistance and the technocratic approach of management, opposing to them a conception of social solidarity that resembles a politics...

... and unexplored sense of the social relations that could shape the concatenation of solar and solidarity called solarity. This article traces this potential through an enquiry into feminist popular culture and other modes of relationality, such as Sivanandha Radha’s yogic invocation of Light. The overall aim...

... psychoanalytically mediated decoupling of themselves from their Balkan origins and their own split subject positions. The empirical history of human solidarity formalized in the Marxist philosophy of class struggle and actualized in Gramsci's philosophy of praxis challenged not only Cartesian subjectivity as pure...

... following an immigration raid at an informal hiring site in southern California, the essay explores how day laborers’ Popular Education praxis has been mobilized through music to build worker solidarity in the defense of hiring sites as a form of urban commons. It argues that the growing repertoire of day...

... entangled in culture in the peripheries, foreclose the possibility of emancipatory political practice and internationalist solidarity by excising revolutionary subjects and their practices from the domain of the political. References Adorno Theodor W. 1992 . “On the Fetish-Character in Music...

... and submerged networks to analyze one of the most emblematic refugee accommodation and solidarity space in Athens, namely, the City Plaza Hotel, this essay examines the constitutive and transformative potential of multiscaled “communities of struggle.” I argue that in many cases, such patterns of everyday...

.... The “solidarity pools” created by the sects on the margins of the economy constitute the basis of this adventure. However, as the scale expands, major accidents become inevitable both in itikat (conviction) and in the administration of the profane world. References Ahmed Shahab . 2015 . What Is Islam...

...Enrica Rigo The rescue of migrants at sea has recently been tackled by authoritative acts that have led to an increasing criminalization of solidarity between and toward migrants. By drawing on the case of the Mediterranea platform of activists, this article argues that the notion of arbitrariness...

... and challenges that the proposed E. L. Smith Solar Farm holds, as a municipal energy project, to positively disrupt oil-loyal provincial and federal power relations, specifically given the City of Edmonton’s August 2019 declaration of a climate emergency, the Wet’suwet’en cause and other solidarity blockades...

.... Emphasizing happiness has allowed sex workers to become legible as political actors within preexisting terms of liberal citizenship. This strategy, however, has effectively affirmed the cultural logics of the “rescue industry” and poses significant challenges to cross-class, -racial, and -age solidarity among...

... of Palestine and Palestinian identity that emerge from these maps. In so doing, it highlights forms of identification that transcend the mainstream nationalist Palestinian narrative and brings to the surface forms of agency, claim making, and solidarity that elude the formal political realm. The overall goal...

... perpetrated by their own regime cannot be based on external solidarity. Jewish Israelis are governed alongside Palestinians, and they are subjects of the same political regime. Their citizenship is a constitutive element of a regime of differentiations and hierarchy in which Jewish Israeli citizens...

... struggle and solidarity. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Ben Carrington Improbable Grounds: The Emergence of the Black British Intellectual To be called a black intellectual in Britain is to be trapped in the tangle of a peculiar...