1. You recognize and evaluate the principal theories and conceptual debates on solidarity in anthropology and development studies.
2. You situate theoretical contributions concerning solidarity in various scientific traditions.
3. You draw out the theoretical dilemma's and questions related to a wide variety of solidarity-related issues.
4. You identify and formulate your own theoretical position in debates on solidarity, both in oral and in written form.
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Solidarity has many guises: we can study it as a social phenomenon (actually existing forms of solidarity), as part of governmental policies (mutual aid and active citizenship) or as a political or moral appeal (international solidarity, social movements). This course is concerned with the classical and contemporary theorization of solidarity, and the major theoretical quandaries related to shifting solidarities in the present. Students are familiarized with the main definitions and theories of solidarity that have been developed in the field of anthropology and development studies and adjacent disciplines. We explore the major tensions and ambiguities that surround the issue of solidarity in its various guises.
We will examine the following questions:
• How is solidarity imagined, shaped and enforced in various settings?
• In what forms may we encounter solidarity?
• How do these various forms relate to each other? For instance, how do the taken-for-granted solidarities among friends relate to more explicitly political articulations of solidarity in social movements or relief appeals?
• How is solidarity organized at different scales, from that of the family, to the neighbourhood, nation or world, and in what ways are these various scales of solidarity related?
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