The Solidarities Lab is dedicated to exploring histories, theories, aesthetics, and politics of “solidarity”. Bridging local, transnational, and global perspectives, we aim to interrogate those neglected interdependencies that do not figure in the standard views of solidarity but that need to be recognized, critiqued and, eventually, transformed, in order to lay new foundations for more expansive relations of solidarity.

The Lab organizes events to facilitate sustained reflection on the problems and possibilities of solidarity. Past events include: 

Decolonizing Climate Justice, Black Transnationalism, Commoning the Social, Revolutionary Meaning-Making, Poetry and Solidarity, Caring Solidarity, Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity, and Anticolonial Solidarity. 

The Lab also hosts a regular Reading Group. Recent texts under discussion include:

David Featherstone, Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Solidarity

Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora

Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity

Jodi Dean, Comrade

To register interest in joining the Reading Group, please contact jholley@ed.ac.uk or elaine.kelly@ed.ac.uk

Founded by Jared Holley and Elaine Kelly.