Article
Education as Solidarity
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
(2017)
Abstract
The concept of solidarity evokes images of fervor, courage, and challenge but also a sense of common commitment, whatever its multiple names and manifestations historically as well as in contemporary life. It involves people who mobilize ties of mutual understanding and community obligation to confront, and change, what is unacceptable. Forces of exploitation, capitalization, and dispossession are the main arenas for solidarity, yet its determinants and dynamics also apply to effective and transformative education, including the hidden curricula and implicit hierarchies enacted even in democratic classrooms. So grounding this encapsulation of anthropology and education in solidarity is both constructive and overdue. As the world, led (or misled) by the United States, faces resurgence of empire in myriad forms that are both bludgeoning and insidious, “solidarity forever” is a goal and promise that is far beyond platitude.
Keywords
- Transculturality,
- Solidarity,
- Sanctuary,
- Horizontalism
Disciplines
Publication Date
September, 2017
DOI
10.1111/aeq.12210
Publisher Statement
© 2017 by the American Anthropological Association
Citation Information
Michelle J. Bellino and James Loucky. "Education as Solidarity" Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 48 Iss. 3 (2017) p. 229 - 232 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/james-loucky/9/