ISBN:
9780230112650
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 256 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
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22 cm
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Learning from the Ground Up : Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
DDC:
303.48/401
Keywords:
Action research
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Experiential learning
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Social action Study and teaching
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Social movements Study and teaching
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Action research
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Experiential learning
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Social action ; Study and teaching
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Social movements ; Study and teaching
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production; 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; 3 Knowledge and Power in South Africa: Xenophobia and Survival in the Post-Apartheid State; 4 On the Question of Expertise: A Critical Reflection on "Civil Society" Processes
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Whatever Happened to the Counter-Globalization Movement? Some Reflections on Antagonism, Vanguardism, and Professionalization6 Collective Approaches to Activist Knowledge: Experiences of the New Anti-Apartheid Movement in Toronto; 7 The Subjectivation of Marriage Migrants in Taiwan: The Insider's Perspectives; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Worker Education and Social Movement Knowledge Production: Practical Tensions and Lessons10 Conversations on the M60: Knowledge Production through Collective Ethnographies; 11 Vanguards and Masses: Global Lessons from the Grenada Revolution; Part III: Making Knowledge and Learning from Peasant and Indigenous Peoples' Struggles; 12 Learning and Knowledge Production in Dalit Social Movements in Rural India; 13 Anjuman-e-Mazareen Punjab: Ownership or Death-The Struggle Continues
Description / Table of Contents:
14 How Do You Say Netuklimk in English? Using Documentary Video to Capture Bear River First Nation's Learning through ActionNotes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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