On Solidarity

Power, Margaret; Charlip, Julie A.

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“…Yet solidarity remains an ontologically slippery concept. Functioning to express the abstract ideal of common struggle with those who are understood to be oppressed, solidarity nonetheless appears in highly situational and specific forms, and often serves simultaneously as an organizing principle, an aspirational horizon, a set of practices, a template for geopolitical alignment, and a core value motivating a set of actions through emotion (Power & Charlip, 2009;Taylor and Hunt-Hendrix, 2019). So how do we capture and portray its power and potential?…”

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A Poetic Tribute to the Spirit of Canada-Nicaragua Solidarity: Tools for Peace

Hanson,

Walters

2023

ESJ

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Tools for Peace (T4P) was a grassroots campaign in the 1980s that mobilized Canadians in every province and territory from diverse walks of life and extended large quantities of material support to Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution. Despite having been recognized by the Nicaraguan state as one of the most important international solidarity efforts of the Sandinista era, T4P has received strikingly little scholarly attention. The paper analyzes 27 interviews with Tools for Peace participants that were conducted in the mid-1980s for an anthology that was never published, the transcripts of which are now found in the public archives at McMaster University. The interviewees’ words evoke the moods, sentiments, and dispositions that animated T4P. Weaving scholar-activism with arts-informed inquiry, this paper presents those sentiments in a series of found poems that seek to both engage and inspire their readers. Through these poems, the paper evokes the experiential and affective dimensions of international solidarity as it was enacted through this novel historical experience. We suggest that T4P was exemplary of the spirit of solidarity in the global movement in support of the Sandinista revolution, but also unique in its Canadian-ness, leading us to advocate a definition of international solidarity that emphasizes its situatedness, together with its experiential and affective dimensions.

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A Poetic Tribute to the Spirit of Canada-Nicaragua Solidarity: Tools for Peace

Hanson,

Walters

2023

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Querida America, Testimonios of Faith, Solidarity, and Survival Along the U.S./Mexico Border

Arriaga

Garcia

Argenal

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Handbook of Health and Well-Being

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Ethics of care, emotional work, and collective action of solidarity: the Patronas in Mexico

Montes

Pombo

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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In this paper, we examine the mobilization of the Patronas, a group of Mexican women who have fed thousands of Central American migrants over the past two decades. We argue that the Patronas' work of feeding and caring for migrants goes beyond essentializing these women's work as just housewives, mothers, and caregivers. Furthermore, we assert that through these care activities, the Patronas exert a feminist ethics of care that is understood as a set of practices based on trust, reciprocity, and solidarity. The Patronas' praxis of caring for the migrants resonates with people and attracts hundreds of volunteers to join these women's emotional and nurturing work leading these women and volunteers to participate in a political practice of solidarity. In this paper, we articulate three key findings: (1) the interplay between the Patronas' emotional work and the ethics of care, (2) the emergence of a collective act of solidarity around the Patronas' caring work that leads hundreds of volunteers to visit these women and join them, and (3) the kitchen as a place where the collective act of solidarity begins and where the Patronas experience their personal transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this study contributes to further our understanding of the interplay between Latin American women's participation in social movements, emotional work in these movements, and the ethics of care.

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On Solidarity

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

A Poetic Tribute to the Spirit of Canada-Nicaragua Solidarity: Tools for Peace

A Poetic Tribute to the Spirit of Canada-Nicaragua Solidarity: Tools for Peace

Querida America, Testimonios of Faith, Solidarity, and Survival Along the U.S./Mexico Border

Ethics of care, emotional work, and collective action of solidarity: the Patronas in Mexico

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