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

✍ Scribed by Dip Kapoor, Aziz Choudry

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Written by authors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, it articulates and documents knowledge production, informal learning, and education work that takes place in everyday worlds of social activism. It highlights linkages between such knowledge(s) and praxis/action, and illustrates tensions over whose knowledge and voice(s) are heard.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
1 Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production......Page 12
Part I: Making Knowledge and Learning from the Politics of Knowledge Production and Representation: “Civil Society,” Academe, and Social Activism—Tensions, Challenges, and Dilemmas......Page 26
2 Global Justice? Contesting NGOization: Knowledge Politics and Containment in Antiglobalization Networks......Page 28
3 Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State......Page 46
4 On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on “Civil Society” Processes......Page 64
5 Whatever Happened to the Counter-Globalization Movement? Some Reflections on Antagonism, Vanguardism, and Professionalization......Page 80
6 Collective Approaches to Activist Knowledge: Experiences of the New Anti-Apartheid Movement in Toronto......Page 96
7 The Subjectivation of Marriage Migrants in Taiwan: The Insider’s Perspectives......Page 112
Part II: Making Knowledge and Learning from Unions, Worker Alliances, and Left Party-Political Activism......Page 130
8 Learning to Win: Exploring Knowledge and Strategy Development in Anti-Privatization Struggles in Colombia......Page 132
9 Worker Education and Social Movement Knowledge Production: Practical Tensions and Lessons......Page 150
10 Conversations on the M60: Knowledge Production through Collective Ethnographies......Page 168
11 Vanguards and Masses: Global Lessons from the Grenada Revolution......Page 184
Part III: Making Knowledge and Learning from Peasant and Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles......Page 202
12 Learning and Knowledge Production in Dalit Social Movements in Rural India......Page 204
13 Anjuman-e-Mazareen Punjab: Ownership or Death—The Struggle Continues......Page 222
14 How Do You Say Netuklimk in English? Using Documentary Video to Capture Bear River First Nation’s Learning through Action......Page 238
Notes on Contributors......Page 254
Index......Page 260