Learning from the Ground Up

Chapter 1. Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production

1. Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor

Part I. Making Knowledge and Learning from the Politics of Knowledge Production and Representation: “Civil Society,” Academe, and Social Activism—Tensions, Challenges, and Dilemmas

2. Global Justice? Contesting NGOization: Knowledge Politics and Containment in Antiglobalization Networks
Aziz Choudry

3. Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State
Ashwin Desai, Shannon Walsh

4. On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on “Civil Society” Processes
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

5. Whatever Happened to the Counter-Globalization Movement? Some Reflections on Antagonism, Vanguardism, and Professionalization
Kees Hudig, Emma Dowling

6. Collective Approaches to Activist Knowledge: Experiences of the New Anti-Apartheid Movement in Toronto
Rafeef Ziadah, Adam Hanieh

7. The Subjectivation of Marriage Migrants in Taiwan: The Insider’s Perspectives
Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Part II. Making Knowledge and Learning from Unions, Worker Alliances, and Left Party-Political Activism

8. Learning to Win: Exploring Knowledge and Strategy Development in Anti-Privatization Struggles in Colombia
Mario Novelli

9. Worker Education and Social Movement Knowledge Production: Practical Tensions and Lessons
David Bleakney, Michael Morrill

10. Conversations on the M60: Knowledge Production through Collective Ethnographies
Biju Mathew

11. Vanguards and Masses: Global Lessons from the Grenada Revolution
David Austin

Part III. Making Knowledge and Learning from Peasant and Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles

12. Learning and Knowledge Production in Dalit Social Movements in Rural India
Kumar Prasant, Dip Kapoor

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Anjuman-e-Mazareen Punjab: Ownership or Death—The Struggle Continues
Azra Talat Sayeed, Wali Haider

14. How Do You Say Netuklimk in English? Using Documentary Video to Capture Bear River First Nation’s Learning through Action
Martha Stiegman, Sherry Pictou

Keywords: Education, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education, Nature Conservation, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership