Focusing on solidarity among members of the so-called 'majority society' in Europe and the Americas, this book offers a compendium of chapters that analyses particular practices of solidarity - both material and symbolic - as well as the mindsets, discourses, and broader societal contexts that provide the fundament of these practices. As these empirical cases demonstrate, the main argument of the book is that solidarity is not necessarily based on a pre-established and exclusive community, but that more inclusive solidarities arise through collective practices, the emergence of new subjectivities, and the mediation of differences. Furthermore, the book argues that it is analytically fruitful to associate concepts of citizenship with solidarity by proposing the concept of 'solidarity citizenship' in order to bring into view societal modes of relating that are constitutive of collective as well as individual subjectivities.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Citizenship Studies.
