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Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements aims to advance the understanding of relationships between learning, knowledge production, history and social change. In four sections, this unique collection explores:
¿ Engagement with activist/movement archives
¿ Learning and teaching militant histories
List of contents
Part 1. Engaging with activist/movement archives
Chapter 1: Working with the past: Making history of struggle part of the struggle
Andrew Flinn (University College London, UK)
Chapter 2: Learning from the Alexander Defence Committee Archives
Archie L. Dick (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Chapter 3: A lost tale of the student movement in Iran
Mahdi Ganjavi and Shahrzad Mojab (University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada)
Part 2. Learning and teaching militant histories
Chapter 4: Immediate history as personal history: The militant as a historian
Pablo Pozzi (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Chapter 5: Anti-apartheid people's histories and post-apartheid nationalist biographies
David Johnson (Open University, UK)
Chapter 6: African history in context: Toward a praxis of radical education
Asher Gamedze, Koni Benson and Akosua Koranteng (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Part 3. Lessons from liberatory and anti-imperialist struggles
Chapter 7: Tracking the states and the UN: From an Indigenous centre
Sharon H. Venne (Treaty Six/Cree) and Irene Watson (Tanganekald/Meintangk, University of South Australia)
Chapter 8: The legacy of the Palestinian Revolution: Reviving organising for the next generation
Akram Salhab (Independent scholar, UK/Palestine)
Chapter 9: 'An act of struggle in the present': History, education and political campaigning by South Asian anti-imperialist activists in the UK
Anandi Ramamurthy (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Kalpana Wilson (London School of Economics, UK)
Chapter 10: Learning in struggle: An activist's view of the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa
About the author
Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, Canada. He is a visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Salim Vally is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
Summary
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements aims to advance the understanding of relationships between learning, knowledge production, history and social change. In four sections, this unique collection explores: • Engagement with activist/movement archives• Learning and teaching militant histories
