Learning Solidarity: Student Activism, Legitimate Peripheral Participation, and Anticolonial Praxis

• In Event: 65.080 - Roundtable Session 24
  In Roundtable Session: 65.080-4 - Becoming Youth Activists Within the Anticolonial Borders of Indigenous and Transnational Lived Experiences

Abstract

In this paper we examine the ways that student activists learned about solidarity and took up an anticolonial praxis that bridged their local and international activism. Following the activism of United Students for Fair Trade leaders as they transitioned from ethical consumer-based sales and marketing advocacy toward deeper forms of solidarity with small-farmer cooperatives, we trace the shifts in students’ understandings of solidarity and historical/contemporary relations of imperialism.

Authors

• Joe Curnow, University of Toronto - OISE

• Bradley R Wilson