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fluidarity en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of fluid + solidarity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Joint action toward a common goal that rejects collective identity.
   • Most importantly, he applies some concepts common in accounts of "postmodern" protest politics, such as affinity group, the rejection of representation, network culture, fluidarity, and the narrative structure of action. 2005, Åsa Wettergren, Moving and Jamming: Implications for Social Movement Theory, →ISBN:
   • Yet when people think of friendships and their links with social movements, theories regarding social networks, weak ties, collective identity, and fluidarity tend to come to mind. 2015, Benjamin Shepard, Rebel Friendships: "Outsider" Networks and Social Movements, page 2:
   • Much as McKim Marriott urged the replacement of the “solidarities” of European sociology (at least in the context of the understanding of India) with the “fluidarities” of Indian cultural realities, so the time now seems ripe to unsettle settled ideas of the relation of culture and materiality through the exploration of the pathways of fluid, wavy meaning that I have attempted to delineat in this paper. 2009, V. Agnew, J. Lamb, Settler and Creole Reenactment, →ISBN, page 78:
   • It is also interesting that the people who embrace fluidarity are struggling against capitalist globalization. 2007, Rod Bantjes, Social Movements in a Global Context: Canadian Perspectives, →ISBN:

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