Sevasti Trubeta

Sevasti Trubeta’s research project engages with the question of how solidarity-based local citizenship challenges national/state citizenship and creates new social realities in current democratic societies shaped by migration. How far does solidarity-based local citizenship operate as a transformative driving force in societies that are shaped by migration and marked by both alliances and antagonisms between local agents? The aim of her study is to elaborate a theoretical concept of solidarity able to operationalize the paradigm of “solidarity citizenship.” Her study draws on empirical knowledge from the “Solidarity Citizenship – Solidarity Region Altmark.” (this is a working group in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which Sevasti Trubeta founded in November 2021 and has been coordinating since then). Given that to date, projects of local solidarity citizenship have been conceptualized for and mainly implemented in urban environments, most of the theoretical and empirical knowledge is drawn on the urban paradigm. Which new questions would the implementation of solidarity projects in rural environments raise? What new knowledge about solidarity would be generated by the rural paradigm?