Building Relationships within Difference: An Anarcha-Feminist Approach to the Micropolitics of Solidarity

Carrie Mott

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2018, vol. 108, issue 2, 424-433

Abstract: Nuanced understandings of praxes of solidarity are critical for grassroots political activists from diverse backgrounds to be able to work together. Since the early 2000s, the primary concern of grassroots political activism in Tucson has been migrant justice and opposition to the militarization of the U.S.–Mexico border. In the aftermath of Arizona's notorious 2010 racial profiling legislation, SB 1070, The Protection Network Action Fund (ProNet) was founded as a collaboration between migrant activist members of The Protection Networks and their allies, with the expressed goal of fundraising to support migrant-led activism in Tucson. ProNet's strategy is rooted in long-term relationship building between migrant activists and predominantly white allies and a commitment to address micropolitical challenges within Tucson, where white-led humanitarian aid groups often remain unaware of activism in Spanish-speaking Chican@ and Latin@ communities. This article examines ProNet as an example of anarcha-feminist solidarity work rooted in a praxis of autonomous horizontal organizing that also takes deliberate steps to negotiate the differences in embodied social privilege that accompany race, class, gender, language, and documentation status.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1385378

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