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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking solidarity politically

Thinking solidarity

Constructing internationalism from below

Part I: Theorizing solidarity

1 Solidarity: theorizing a transformative political relation

The makings of solidarity

Subaltern geographies of connection

Thinking a transformative political relation

Conclusion: solidarity as a universalizing relation

2 Rethinking internationalism

Internationalism beyond the nation

Subaltern cosmopolitanism and internationalism

Placing internationalism

Spatial logics of internationalism

Conclusion: recovering connections

Part II: Colonial and anti-colonial internationalisms

3 ‘Labour with a white skin will never emancipate itself while labour with a black skin is in bondage’: maritime labour and the uses of solidarity

Maritime organizing, white labourism and the limits of solidarity

‘A fighting international of marine labour’

Black internationalism and maritime labour

Conclusion

4 ‘Your liberty and ours’: black internationalism and anti-fascism

Anti‑fascist trajectories

Black internationalist maps of grievance of the Spanish Civil War

Forging solidarities in Spain

Conclusion

Part III: Solidarity and Cold War geopolitics

5 ‘No trade with the junta’: political exile and solidarity after the Chilean coup

Constructing solidarities and the geopolitics of the Cold War

‘Now the generals rule Chile / And the British have their thanks / For they rule with Hawker Hunters / And they rule with Chieftain Tanks’

Folk music has no borders

Conclusion

6 ‘Beyond the barbed wire’: European nuclear disarmament and non-aligned internationalism

Solidarity ‘beyond the Cold War’

END and the spatial politics of non-alignment

Constructing non-aligned solidarities

Conclusion

Part IV: Solidarity in the shadow of neoliberalism

7 ‘Our resistance is as transnational as capital’: the counter-globalization movement and prefigurative solidarity

Making prefigurative solidarities

The ‘Battle of Seattle’, whiteness and contested organizing practices

Transnational feminism and the World Social Forum

Prefigurative geographies of connection

Conclusion

8 ‘If the climate were a bank it would be bailed out’: solidarity and the making of climate justice

Contested maps of grievance

Climate justice and the formation of solidarities

‘System change not climate change’

Climate justice and state-led internationalism

Conclusion

Conclusion: Solidarity without guarantees

Solidarity as a world-making process

Solidarities and political possibilities

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

References

Index