Conflicted commitments : race, privilege, and power in transnational solidarity activism /

Conflicted Commitments analyzes a form of non-violent, direct transnational solidarity in which activists from the global North travel to support and protect people in the global South. Gada Mahrouse contends that this brand of activism is a compelling site of racialized power relations and is highl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mahrouse, Gada, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Solidarity.
Humanitarianism > Political aspects.
Social justice > Political aspects.
Race > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Power (Social sciences)
Solidarité.
Humanitaire > Aspect politique.
Justice sociale > Aspect politique.
Race > Aspect social.
Relations raciales.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Humanitarianism > Political aspects
Race relations
Race > Social aspects
Solidarity
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Passport or "Carte Blance"? On race, privilege, and power in transnational solidarity activism
  • Whiteness and the divergent responses to Rachel Corrie's death
  • The CPT Kidnapping: Citizenship, sexuality, and the racialized "politics of life"
  • The compelling story of the first-world activist in the war zone
  • Race-conscious transnational activists with cameras: Mediators of compassion
  • Conflicted commitments: The "fine line between advocacy and imperialism"
  • "Split affinites": Gender and sexual violence in solidarity movements
  • Liberal universalism and pragmatism: Implications for decolonizing solidarity
  • Afterword: Solidarity tourism and the depoliticization of activism.

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