{"product_id":"the-fantasy-and-necessity-of-solidarity","title":"The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity","description":"Author(s): Schulman, Sarah, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 06\/11\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Peninsula Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Peninsula Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Political ideologies,\u003cbr\u003e Dimensions: 197 x 131 x 26\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\/EAN\/SKU: 9781913512774\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning writer Sarah Schulman, a longtime activist and critic of the Israeli war on Gaza, comes a brilliant examination of the misunderstood concept of solidarity which seeks to provide a new vision of what it means, and why it matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this nuanced analysis, Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals, arguing that in today's world of globalized power structures, true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed.  Schulman examines a range of case studies, from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain, to NYC's AIDS activism in the 1990s, to the current wave of protest movements against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people, and her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male dominated culture industries. Reckoning with the successes and failures of these movements, she argues that action always comes at a cost, despite not always being effective. But without solidarity we are stuck with the status quo, and we lose any hope of progressive change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By turns challenging, inspiring, pragmatic, and poetic, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity provides a much-needed path for how we can work together towards justice now and for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schulman, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55982979744130,"sku":"9781913512774","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781913512774.jpg?v=1761993708","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.info\/products\/the-fantasy-and-necessity-of-solidarity","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}