Aziz Choudry: 3 books
Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
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...
Learning from the Ground Up
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
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.
NGOization
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and...