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Paper short abstract

This paper explores the different expressions of solidarity we can see in international and 'local' experiences of volunteerism in Tanzania in the early post-colonial period, with a particular focus on the emergence of vertical and horizontal / convivial forms of solidarities.

Paper long abstract

Through a comparison between 'local' and 'international' experiences of volunteerism in Tanzania in the first decades of independence, this paper explores the different forms and modes of solidarity we can see emerging in this period. In particular it contrasts the emergence of a form of global development solidarity in the global North with horizontal, convivial ideas and expressions seen in local, Tanzanian, understandings and experiences of volunteerism. Through this, the paper argues that the newly emerging idea and expression of 'development solidarity' was not a single thing, but consisted of several forms. For global North volunteers, it was embedded in new ways of understanding international development, and ideas around global citizenship linking global North to global South in action against poverty. Tanzanian forms of development solidarity were built upon a more local sense of citizenship, and horizontal, convivial and community based forms.