Unchaining Solidarity : On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou - Catherine Malabou

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Unchaining Solidarity

On Mutual Aid and Anarchism with Catherine Malabou

By: Catherine Malabou (Editor), Petr Urban (Editor), Petr Kouba (Editor), Dan Swain (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 November 2021

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272 Pages

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Considering solidarity and mutual aid at the intersection of political philosophy and biology, made more urgent and prescient by the COVID-19 crisis, this book is grounded in the work of Catherine Malabou and takes her theories in creative new directions.

To think about solidarity mutual aid is to think about how we can and do live together, and how we might do so differently. Mutual aid is, in Peter Kropotkin's famous formulation, a factor of evolution, but also a conscious political strategy undertaken by activists in times of crisis. While this combination of biology and politics has been a source of controversy, and even embarrassment, recent developments demand a rethink. The contributions in this volume aim to renew interest in the idea of mutual aid, and to consider how biological claims might be incorporated into political projects without appearing as essentialist constraints. They do so in dialogue with Catherine Malabou, whose work insists on the importance of the biological while rejecting any notions of biological determinism. They thus point to the necessity of solidarity and mutual aid for understanding our social life, while releasing them from the biological and symbolic chains in which they often appear.

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Let this stunning gathering of theorists surprise, puzzle, and entertain you: their work unchains altogether different mode of analysis, one that calls attention to the politics of mutual aid, solidarity, and care.

--Andrej Grubacic, professor of anthropology at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research, and the author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism, Wobblies and Zapatistas

This collection of thoughtful reflections on solidarity takes off from its character and role in the "mutual aid" tradition of anarchism. Exploring ideas about how to make such solidarity concrete and accessible, it has much to offer activist philosophers concerned to re-appropriate the term.

--Bob Brecher, emeritus professor of moral philosophy, University of Brighton

Unchaining Solidarity composes a bracing study of anarchist social forms to reveal their capacity to unleash the protean, emancipatory powers of the commons in singular figurations of non-reciprocity. Voicing variations on Catherine Malabou's opening invocation of a "politics of plasticity," its essays deploy a powerfully conceived political and conceptual force as they range freely across the contemporary forms of anarchist solidarity, from neuroplasticity and new materialism to Covid and feminist solidarity.

--Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University

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