Solidarity Cities

Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation

by Maliha SafriMarianna PavlovskayaStephen HealyCraig Borowiak

Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future of more livable and just cities.

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Detail of a city street map overlaid with green, uneven circular nodes that are interconnected and contain the title and author names.

Background image: Map of the City of Brooklyn (New York: H. Phelps, 1864) from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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    The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by Haverford College, Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Drew University.

    Portions of chapter 1 are adapted from Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak, and Marianna Pavlovskaya, “Putting the Solidarity Economy on the Map,” Journal of Design Strategies 9, no. 1 (Fall 2017): 71–83. Portions of chapter 3 are adapted from Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak, Marianna Pavlovskaya, and Maliha Safri, “Commoning and the Politics of Solidarity: Transformational Responses to Poverty,” Geoforum 127 (December 2021): 306–15. Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from Craig Borowiak, Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, and Marianna Pavlovskaya, “Navigating the Fault Lines: Race and Class in Philadelphia’s Solidarity Economy,” Antipode 50, no. 3 (June 2018): 577–603, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12368. Portions of chapter 6 are adapted from Marianna Pavlovskaya, Craig Borowiak, Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, and Robert Eletto, “The Place of Common Bond: Can Credit Unions Make Place for Solidarity Economy?,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110, no. 4 (2020): 1,278–99, https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1685368.

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