The Cosmopolitics of Solidarity Social Movement Encounters across Difference

This volume discusses how commonality and difference are negotiated across heterogeneous social movements in Latin America, especially Peru. It applies cosmopolitics as an analytical lens to understand the intricacies of social movement encounters across difference, without imposing colonial hierarchies or categorizations. The author blends multiple theoretical approaches—such as social movement research, postcolonial feminism, and post-foundational discourse theory—with ethnographic insights to develop a theory of cosmopolitical solidarity. 

Providing a transnational and intersectional perspective on the politics of social justice in a postcolonial context, this book will appeal to students of social movements, gender studies, racism, Latin American studies, and international relations, as well as practitioners involved in activism, social work, or international cooperation. 

Johanna Leinius is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Sociological Theory at the University of Kassel, Germany. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is speaker of the Working Group ‘Poststructuralist Perspectives on Social Movements’ of the Institute for Social Movement Studies (ipb) and former speaker of the Section ‘Gender and Politics’ of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW). Her research interests include postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist theory, the politics of ontology and of knowledge production, Latin American politics and societies, eco-territorial conflicts and transformations.