The (anti)colonial limits of solidarity: History, theory, practice

In this chapter, Jared Holley questions Andrea Sangiovanni’s account of the role of solidarity in the late nineteenth-century French colonial context. He argues that it exhibits a ‘methodological nationalism’ such that solidarity is worked out as a response to and engagement with solely domestic issues, for example, the class conflict endemic to the Third Republic in which solidarism was born. Holley believes this is a mistake because it obscures how solidarity emerged in part as a response to and in engagement with a much more international, colonial context.