Weaving Solidarity: Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche

Sebastian Garbe

Feb 2022 · Edition Politik Book 123 · transcript Verlag

About this ebook

In the Global South, Indigenous and Native people continue to live under colonial relations within formally independent nation-states. Sebastian Garbe offers a critical perspective on contemporary expressions of international solidarity and transnational advocacy. He combines approaches from critical race and decolonial studies with an activist ethnography on networked spaces of encounters created through solidarity activism by Mapuche and non-Mapuche actors. Departing from those experiences, this book not only presents potential pitfalls of transnational advocacy but suggests new ways of understanding and practicing solidarity.

About the author

Sebastian Garbe, born in 1986, works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda, where he is the coordinator of the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences. He also works as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, where he completed his doctorate in 2020. His teaching and research were awarded with the Dr.-Herbert-Stolzenberg-Award for the Study of Culture in 2017 and 2020 and focuses on post- and decolonial theory as well as on protest and social movements.