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The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics

The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics

The Question of Solidarity in Law and Politics

Editors:
Eleni Karageorgiou, Lund University
Gregor Noll, Gothenburg University
Eleni Karageorgiou, Gregor Noll, Patricia Mindus, Sally J. Scholz, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Frédéric Mégret, Charles Romain Mbele, Eva Nanopoulos, Lisa Herzog, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Sundhya Pahuja, Peo Hansen, Bas Schotel
Published:
January 2026
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ISBN:
9781009580564

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    What is the problem that solidarity is invoked as a solution to? How are solidarity schemes narrated? Which particular interests are pursued in its name? In this book, leading authorities in law, philosophy and political sciences respond to the solidarity question, drawing on debates on international law, international aid, collective security, joint action, market organization and neoliberalism, international human rights across the North/South divide, African mobility, transnational labour in the digital age and populism. This volume captures the shifting nature of long held historical assumptions on solidarity. Its twelve chapters open up for differentiated understandings of solidarity in law and politics beyond discursive cliché or ideological appropriation, bringing crises of the past into conversation with the crises of today. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    • Provides readers with a one-stop orientation on contemporary debates and issues in solidarity scholarship by authoritative writers, bringing law, philosophy, political sciences and other disciplines into conversation with each other
    • Identifies problematic uses of solidarity, including unwanted solidarity expressions and misleading or romanticising conceptualizations
    • This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

    Product details

    January 2026
    Paperback
    9781009580564
    256 pages
    229 × 152 mm
    Not yet published - available from January 2026

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction Karageorgiou and Noll
    • 1. Solidarity and law: odd bedfellows? Patricia Mindus
    • 2. Risking solidarity Sally J. Scholz
    • 3. Antinomies and aporias in official human rights solidarity argumentation across the Global South/North Axis Obiora Chinedu Okafor
    • 4. Unwelcome solidarity Frédéric Mégret
    • 5. On migration: an African perspective Charles Romain Mbele
    • 6. Neoliberalism, solidarity and the law of collective security Eva Nanopoulos
    • 7. Will there be solidarity in data-driven societies? Gregor Noll, 8. Transnational worker solidarity after the pandemic Lisa Herzog
    • 9. Populism and trans-national solidarity Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce and Sundhya Pahuja
    • 10. Modern monetary theory and the birth of a new refugee realism Peo Hansen
    • 11. Solidarity conceptions, neo-liberal economics and law as a public service Bas Schotel
    • 12. International law and the messianic promise of solidarity Eleni Karageorgiou
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Eleni Karageorgiou, Gregor Noll, Patricia Mindus, Sally J. Scholz, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Frédéric Mégret, Charles Romain Mbele, Eva Nanopoulos, Lisa Herzog, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Sundhya Pahuja, Peo Hansen, Bas Schotel

    • Editors
    • Eleni Karageorgiou , Lund University

      Eleni Karageorgiou is senior researcher in public international law. Her Ph.D. thesis on solidarity in refugee protection has been awarded the Oscar II:s stipend by Lund University. She has received funding for postdoctoral research which led to the publication of the edited Volume Solidarity and the Limits of Social Europe (2022).

    • Gregor Noll , Gothenburg University

      Gregor Noll is a professor of international law at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg, and a guest researcher at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. He has written on subjects in the theory of international law, migration law, international humanitarian law, and law and AI.