Tag: Solidarities

Cities and Solidarities Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe


Free Download Justin Colson, "Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe "
English | ISBN: 1138943614 | 2017 | 292 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe.

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Contending Global Apartheid Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility


Free Download Martin Bak Jrgensen, "Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility "
English | ISBN: 9004514503 | 2022 | 356 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility spells out a plea for utopia in a crisis-ridden 21st century of unequal development, exclusionary citizenship, and forced migrations. The volume offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Africa. They proceed from the idea that cities may accommodate both a humanistic sensibility and a radical potential for social transformation. The figure of the ‘migrant’ is pivotal. It expounds the prospect of transversal solidarity to capture a plurality of commonalities and to abjure dichotomies between in-group and out-group, the national and the international, or society and institutions.

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