TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITIES · SEMINAR

“What does it mean to say you are in solidarity with someone you have never met,
whose language you don’t speak, whose struggle you can only access through media?”

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Nathanael Pribady and Sophia Medzoyan

Four texts · four layers

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city nodes arcs: click for concept

Four solidarities

Alneel · materialist solidarity

land, class, sovereignty

Metaphysicalisation is counter‑revolutionary. Solidarity must be grounded in resource distribution and popular power.

Khartoum · Gaza · Darfur
Sabbagh · border as generator

Khaliltown

The border doesn't only restrict — it produces diasporic geographies. The passport cover as theoretical object.

Hebron ↔ Yiwu
Roberts · sono‑racial triangulation

aesthetic coalition

Racial triangulation is sonic. “Wedding of the Chinese and the Coon” has a sono-racial life.

US industry · Robeson · Liu
Simone · blackness as device

right to the city

Blackness as methodological device — transurban connections from Douala to Phnom Penh.

Douala · Jakarta · Dubai

complications

Material / metaphysical

Can solidarity not be rooted in both simultaneously? Indonesia–Palestine: land back is material and led by Islamist formations. Does this challenge Alneel’s framework? “Our revolutionary understanding should not be limited to searching for hierarchical links” — but aren’t these connections born of interconnected material conditions?

Solidarity gatekeeping

“Doubling down on a persecuted Christian complex … is equal parts politically immature and irresponsible.” — EVN Report. How do we avoid reproducing hierarchies of deservingness? Artsakh/Palestine parallels risk reinforcing nationalist narratives.

Solidarity vs co‑presence

Ferdinand dancing to James Brown in Dubai: catharsis or solidarity? Alneel might say survival without organization is not solidarity. Simone resists that hierarchy.

Robeson’s Orientalism

Robeson’s Afro-Asian vision was politically radical and aesthetically colonial. Is Orientalism the condition of possibility for cross-racial solidarity in that moment?

the map · all layers active

“What does it mean to say you are in solidarity?”

Is there a solidarity that escapes the metaphysical/material binary?

What does Simone’s transurban domain look like beyond the urban?

What would it mean for this map to become organizational rather than analytic?

Cities are already in conversation. The question is whether we are.