... 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...

...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...

...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...

... year on, Macron’s neoliberal plan is the only game in town, and protestors need to urgently remobilize for the struggles and catastrophic social realities ahead. 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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 of...

... 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...

... the social is accepted has to be defended against the “new antidemocrats” (such as Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, or the Invisible Committee). For this reason, a democratic notion of solidarity is proposed that is based on the never-ending play between politics and the political. Second, a notion of...

...Stavros Stavrides What has been called the squares movement is characterized by practices of commoning that reinvent public space as commons. People in the recent square occupations were not only demanding justice and direct democracy but were also creating ad hoc new forms of solidarity and...

... students' demands were necessarily reformist (saving rather than exiting the university), their collective punishment and negative solidarity provides a model for contemporary political practice in general. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Nina Power Dangerous Subjects...

... 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...

...Tracy L. Friedel Idle No More has proven to be an important movement in the politicizing of Native rights and environmental issues in Canada and internationally, evidenced by the network of solidarity that quickly formed during the initial stages of organizing. Coordinated and articulated through...

... “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. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

... are still 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... solidarity blockades in Alberta and across Canada in early 2020, and Alberta’s subsequent Critical Infrastructure Bill 1, passed in early 2020. Investigating the ways in which the issues are being debated by various constituencies throughout the approval/rejection process, the article extrapolates approaches...