An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Jared Holley (Sabbatical Fellow, 2026).
Anticolonial Solidarity: towards a global history of political thought
This talk will introduce my attempt to clarify the theory and practice of solidarity by recovering the forgotten global history of anticolonial solidarity. Discussions of solidarity in contemporary political theory suffer from two related limits: they are insufficiently historical, drawing on incomplete historiographies; and they are insufficiently global, engaging narrowly with European intellectual history. I suggest that these historical and geographical shortcomings can be overcome by developing a critical genealogy of solidarity grounded in the political thought of the century (c.1885-1995) spanning the European Scramble for Africa to the formation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. I then leverage this genealogy to develop an account of anticolonial solidarity that responds to urgent issues in the theory and practice of solidarity today. In doing so, I will discuss questions of historical interpretation and the possible relations of solidarity between anticolonial and environmental movements.
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