[Fdu] Book launch Jan 31 - Aziz Choudry, Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

[Cynthia Wright]

Another Story Bookshop presents the Toronto Book Launch for

Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
By Aziz Choudry
University of Toronto Press

Sunday, January 31st @ 5pm
315 Roncesvalles Ave (at Grenadier)
Free - all welcome
416-462-1104
anotherstory.ca <http://anotherstory.ca>

Our entrance is wheelchair accessible but with regrets not our bathroom

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper
engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social,
political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his
own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such
organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge,
debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Drawing on Marxist, 
feminist,
anti-racist, and anti-colonial perspectives on knowledge and power, the book
highlights how activists and organizers learn through doing, and fills 
the gap
between social movement practice as it occurs on the ground, critical adult
education scholarship, and social movement theorizing. Examples include
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, Migrant and immigrant worker struggles in Canada, 
and the
Quebec student strike. The result is a book that carves out a new space for
intellectual life in activist practice.

Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor, Department of Integrated Studies in
Education, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for
Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg.

Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/165959160433615/


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