"Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the dynamic relationship between structures of kinship and the (material) conditions under which collective action emerges from a literary and cultural studies perspective. How are kinship and collective action negotiated in literature, the arts, or in specific historical moments, and how does this affect the role of representation? How have conceptualizations of both concepts developed over time, and what can we infer from this for questions of kinship and collective action today?

Gero Bauer, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, Katharina Luther: Kinship and Collective Action in Times of the CoronavirusI. InterventionsRussell West-Pavlov: Kith and KinSebastian Engelmann: Education and Collective Action: About Making Kin and Learning to Live and Die Well TogetherKim Luther: The Creative Couple: Towards an Aesthetic Union of the Human and the MachineAnya Heise-von der Lippe: "What language do you dream in?" Re-Imagining the Future of (Post-)Human KinshipsII. InteractionsAstrid Franke: Kinship and Collective ActionAmina ElHalawani: The Voice of the People: The Role of Kinship in the Songs of Sayed DarwishSama Khosravi Ooryad: Conquering, Chanting, and Protesting: Tools of Kinship Creation in the Girls of Enghelab Street (Non-)Movement in IranAna Nolasco: Designing Kinship: Creative Processes and Collective ActionIII. InterpretationsIngrid Hotz-Davies: Walking in Another's Shoes: Making Kin Through LiteratureJoelle Tybon: The Stories We Tell: Kinship and Collective Action in 'Abd al-Rahman Munīf's al-NihāyātAyman Bakr: Identity, Kinship, and Revolution in the Narratives of Naguib MahfouzMaria Fleischhack: Against All Odds: Kinship and Collective Action in The ExpanseJonatan Jalle Steller: Resistance is Fertile: The Popularization of Kinship and the Impossibility of Reaching Utopia in Mad Max: Fury RoadIV.Gero Bauer , Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, Katharina Luther: Kinship and Collective Action: A ConversationContributors