The Solidarity Encounter

Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations

By Carol Lynne D'Arcangelis
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences, Race & Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774863810, 300 pages, June 2022
Paperback : 9780774863865, 300 pages, January 2023
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774864404, 300 pages, June 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774864503, 300 pages, June 2022
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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

1 White Women, Proximity and Settler/Liberal Self-Making

2 Transgressing Cherished Spaces: Indigenous Women on the “Impulse to Solidarity”

3 Risky Romanticization: Cultural Difference, National Belonging and Indigenous Resistance

4 Making Exceptions as the Rule: “Good/White Settler Allies” and the Politics of Declaration

5 Towards Non-Colonizing Solidarity

Conclusion: The Solidarity Encounter in Relief

Notes; References; Index

Description

On the heels of recent revelations of past and ongoing injustices, reconciliation and solidarity by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people has become even more urgent. But it is a complex endeavour. The Solidarity Encounter takes readers into the fraught terrain of solidarity organizing in settler colonial North America. The investigation grapples with a key tension: colonizing behaviours that result when white women centre their own goals and frameworks as they participate in activism with Indigenous women and groups. However, the book concludes with hope, offering a constructive framework for non-colonizing solidarity that can be applied in any context of unequal power.

Awards

  • Short-listed, Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing 2023

Reviews

Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis has produced a timely and important book that engages meaningfully with relevant scholarship around feminist anti‐colonial and Indigenous resurgence efforts. Students, scholars, and activists alike will find lessons here.

- Shawna Ferris, associate professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba