Activism, Social Movements, Learning and Knowledge Production
What do organizers and activists know and how do they know it? What is the intellectual labour – the learning, knowledge production and research – which takes place in the course of organizing and activism? This seminar will be based on Aziz Choudry’s new book, Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2015). Examples of activist learning and knowledge production will be drawn from migrant and immigrant worker struggles in »»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿, anti-colonial currents within global justice organizing in the Asia-Pacific, activist research and education in social movements and people’s organizations in the Philippines, and the Quebec student strike of 2012.
»»ÆÞ¾ãÀÖ²¿ the Speaker
Aziz Choudry
Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation.