The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity: Social Movement Encounters across Difference

by Johanna Leinius

Overview

This volume discusses how commonality and difference are negotiated across heterogeneous social movements in Latin America, especially Peru. It applies cosmopolitics as an analytical lens to understand the intricacies of social movement encounters across difference, without imposing colonial hierarchies or categorizations. The author blends multiple theoretical approaches—such as social movement research, postcolonial feminism, and post-foundational discourse theory—with ethnographic insights to develop a theory of cosmopolitical solidarity.

Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030990893
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/17/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	173
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Johanna Leinius is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Sociological Theory at the University of Kassel, Germany. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is speaker of the Working Group ‘Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements’ of the Institute for Social Movement Studies (ipb) and former speaker of the Section ‘Gender and Politics’ of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). Her research interests include postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist theory, the politics of ontology and of knowledge production, Latin American politics and societies, eco-territorial conflicts and transformations.

Table of Contents

1. Decolonizing difference in a postcolonial world.- 2. Inter-Movement Encounters: A Cosmopolitical Perspective.- 3. A History of Constructing Difference and Commonality in Peru.- 4. Dialoging Body-territories at the 5th Diálogos.- 5. Deliberation and dispute at the 13th EFLAC.- 6. Cosmopolitical solidarity.- 7. Paths towards the pluriverse.

Editorial Reviews

... Die Autorin analysiert die Konstruktion von Differenz in der Begegnung heterogener Akteur*innen innerhalb transnationaler sozialer Bewegungen. ... Das zu rezensierende Werk überzeugt durch die Verknüpfung einer durchdachten theoretisch-konzeptuellen Analyse mit empirischen Fallbeispielen. ... Insofern stellt das spannend geschriebene und historisch differenzierte Werk der Autorin eine enorme wissenschaftliche Bereicherung für eine kritische feministische und postkoloniale Bewegungsforschung dar.” (Alina Heuser, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, Jg. 36, Heft 4, 2023)

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