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.