Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

Based on in-depth interviews with BDS activists and their allies in Canada, and borrowing from literatures of social movement and diasporic political transnationalism, the paper looks at the ways BDS decolonizes through the process of building transformative solidarity movements with other oppressed groups. During the process of transnational political mobilization, new global subjectivities are negotiated, where activists perceive an alternative vision of the world, aimed to be free from the racial logics that reproduce the occupation. The paper focuses on the dynamics of social movements and political engagement from a transnational framework. More specifically, it engages in discussions of solidarity building among diverse social movements to challenge the hegemonic order. It also underscores the ways subjectivities oscillate between a particularistic movement into universalistic shared beliefs.