Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances (Reading Gramsci) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745336264 ISBN 13: 9780745336268

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2016

Synopsis

Solidarity without Borders looks at the micropolitics of migrants as political actors by observing alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organisations and different constituencies, all read within a Gramscian context. This book presents an argument for Gramsci's theory of the formation of a transnational counter-hegemonic bloc, methods of modern resistance and new forms of solidarity between these forming groups. With case studies of the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social movements in Ireland and the Lampedusa in Hamburg among others, the argument is explored via national contexts and structured around political dimensions. Four themes are discussed: the diversity of new migrant political actors; solidarity and new alliances across borders; avoiding misplaced alliances; and spaces of resistance. Migrants are often deprived of agency and placed outside the mobilisations taking place across Europe. Solidarity without Borders will demonstrate how new solidarity relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common ground for struggle and for developing political alternatives.

About this title

Review:

"This book is well organized and cohesive, and makes a convincing case for the relevance of the neo-Gramscian framework to be employed, especially in the study of transnational migration."--Hong Kong Review of Books

About the Author:

Óscar García Agustín is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published articles on social movements, civil society, and political and discourse theory. He has coedited Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers (Peter Lang, 2013), Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of Democratic Transformation (Migration Letters, 2013) and Politics of Dissent (Peter Lang, 2015).

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0745336264
• ISBN 13: 9780745336268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Agustín Óscar García, Jørgensen Martin Bak