Forthcoming book: “Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation," co-authored by Marianna Pavlovskaya

Dr. Marianna Pavlovskaya’s new book “Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation” (co-authored with Maliha Safri, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak) will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in January 2025. Collectively authored by scholars from different disciplines, the book argues that cities have always been built with human solidarity instead of racial capitalism alone. Illustrated with many maps, the book draws on the ontological power of mapping to make Solidarity Cities visible in our urban landscapes and make them part of the spatial imaginaries of the urban future. The book covers historical and spatial dynamics of solidarity economy in three cities – New York City, Philadelphia, and Worcester, MA - and analyzes those dynamics using spatial metaphors of faultlines, bulwarks, and edgezones. Cooperative forms of housing, food production, finance, and care work are considered in greater depth as particularly significant sectors within the solidarity economy that respond to unmet needs. Not incidentally, the spatial concentrations of the solidarity economy overlap with lower income and people of color neighborhoods that were intensely redlined in the middle of the 20th century. In those and other communities, economic solidarity has provided urban residents with a major means of not only surviving in the face of racial capitalism but also making cities in which people wanted to live – cities built on human solidarity and care instead of the profit motive and capitalist competition.

For details see https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916022/solidarity-cities/ . Pre-order with a 40% discount through December 2024.