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

✍ Scribed by Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Global Justice? Contesting NGOization: Knowledge Politics and Containment in Antiglobalization Networks....Pages 17-34
Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State....Pages 35-51
On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on “Civil Society” Processes....Pages 53-68
Whatever Happened to the Counter-Globalization Movement? Some Reflections on Antagonism, Vanguardism, and Professionalization....Pages 69-83
Collective Approaches to Activist Knowledge: Experiences of the New Anti-Apartheid Movement in Toronto....Pages 85-99
The Subjectivation of Marriage Migrants in Taiwan: The Insider’s Perspectives....Pages 101-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Learning to Win: Exploring Knowledge and Strategy Development in Anti-Privatization Struggles in Colombia....Pages 121-137
Worker Education and Social Movement Knowledge Production: Practical Tensions and Lessons....Pages 139-155
Conversations on the M60: Knowledge Production through Collective Ethnographies....Pages 157-171
Vanguards and Masses: Global Lessons from the Grenada Revolution....Pages 173-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Learning and Knowledge Production in Dalit Social Movements in Rural India....Pages 193-210
Anjuman-e-Mazareen Punjab: Ownership or Death—The Struggle Continues....Pages 211-225
How Do You Say Netuklimk in English? Using Documentary Video to Capture Bear River First Nation’s Learning through Action....Pages 227-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-256

✦ Subjects

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

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