Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society

edited by Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen

Pluto Press, 2016
Paper: 978-0-7453-3631-2 | Cloth: 978-0-7453-3626-8
Library of Congress Classification JV6035.S57 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.8

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Solidarity without Borders examines the politics of migration at the ground-level, considering migrants not as an issue to be solved but as individual political agents, exploring the possibilities raised by alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organizations, and other constituencies. Applying Gramsci’s theories of modern resistance and taking up the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey, social movements in Ireland, and the Lampedusan Libyan migrant group as case studies, Solidarity without Borders demonstrates how new solidarity relations are shaped and how these may construct a new common ground for developing political alternatives.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Óscar García Agustín is associate professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is coeditor of Post-Crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers, Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of Democratic Transformation, and Politics of Dissent. Martin Bak Jørgensen is associate professor in the Department for Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

REVIEWS

"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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1: Óscar Garcia Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen: Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives On Migration And Civil Society Alliances

Part I: The Heterogeneity Of Political Actors
2: Ursula Apitzsch: Gramsci’s “Philosophy Of Praxis” And The Topic Of Migration
3: Nazl enses & K vanç Özcan: Countering Hegemony Through A Park
Chapter 4: Miguel Mellino: Gramsci In Slices – Race, Colonialism, Migration And The Postcolonial Gramsci

Part 2: Solidarity And Alliances
5: Derek Boothman: Political And Social Alliances: Gramsci And Today
6: Ronald Munck & Mary Hyland: Gramsci, Migrants And Trade Unions: An Irish Case Study
7: Laurence Cox: The Southern Question And The Irish Question: A Social Movement Perspective

Part 3: Avoiding Misplaced Alliances
8: Peter Mayo: Hegemony, Migration & Misplaced Alliances Lessons From Gramsci
9: Óscar García Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen: For The Sake Of Workers But Not Immigrants Workers? Social Dumping And Free Movement

Part 4: Spaces Of Resistance
10: David Featherstone: Politicising The Crisis: The Southern Question, Uneven Geographies And The Construction Of Solidarity
11: Lisa Kings, Aleksandra Ålund And Nazem Tahvilzadeh: Contesting Urban Management Regimes: The Rise Of Urban Justive Movements In Sweden
12: Susi Meret And Elisabetta Della Corte: Spaces Of Resistance And Re-Actuality Of Gramsci In Refugees’ Struggles For Rights: The ‘Lampedusa In Hamburg’ Between Exit And Voice

Conclusion
13: Óscar Garcia Agustín & Martin Bak Jørgensen: Against Pessimism – A Time And Space For Solidarity
Index

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