Dr. David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow whose recent work has illuminated the radical geographies of solidarity, resistance, and internationalism. Building on Doreen Massey’s legacies, he has published widely on political ecologies, labor histories, and transnational movements, including co-editing Doreen Massey: Selected Political Writings (2022) and Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic (2022). His research connects the struggles of dockworkers, anti-colonial activists, and contemporary movements for climate justice, foregrounding how place becomes a site of possibility through collective action. At Glasgow, he teaches and supervises across political ecology and spatial politics, while his recent lectures speak to his commitment to making geography a practice of critical solidarity.

In this conversation, we touch upon the following points:

- The importance of maritime spaces and labour in relation to shaping forms of internationalism from below.

- The Interplay between past and present forms of maritime solidarities.

- Contested and ambiguous aspects of maritime spaces and labour especially in regards to racialisation and automation.

- Solidarity as a space of learning & exchange and challenging more top-down/one way flows of strategy and knowledge.