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This book critically assesses the system of capitalist development being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era.. An important work for students and scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development, indigenous, peasant, and migrant/labour studies.
List of contents
1. Introduction Americas/Caribbean 2. The Worldwide Reach of Aziz Choudry 3. Learning about Living Treaties 4. Resurgence Amidst Extractivist Empires: Reframing Decolonization Movements Through Land Back, Community Resurgence and Sustainable Self-Determination 5. Genocide Informed Awareness: Understanding the Impact of the Crime on Indigenous Peoples 6. Remembering Putis: State, Earth, and the Indigenous Ordinary in the Peruvian Andes 7. An Activist Archive of Photo-Journalism: The Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous, Ecological and Anti-capitalist Advocacy in the Americas 8. The Educational Foundations of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement: A Dialogue with Aziz Choudry 9. Underdogs: The Dehumanization of Caribbean Migrant Agricultural Labor and Colonial Capitalist Orders 10. ‘Our Research is Driven by Our Politics’: Red Thread, Women’s Unwaged Caring Work and Organizing Through Time-Use in Guyana 11. Neoliberal Austerity, Black Feminist Politics, and the Exploitation of Black Women’s Motherwork in Rural Education in Jamaica 12. An Invisible Act of Resistance: Remembering Labor Struggles Against the Argentine 1976 Dictatorship Africa 13. The Rise of Anti-immigrant Organisations in South Africa: Lessons from Comrade Aziz Choudry’s Praxis 14. Ubuhlalism as a Universal Pedagogical Praxis 15. Agrarian Contestations and Capital Frontiers in Africa 16. Fighting Extinction Technology: The Story of a Movement 17. The Weathervane Activist Politics of Accumulation by Dispossession: Radio Ada Charting a Path of Clarity in the Midst of Ambiguous Social Movement Learning 18. Ogoni Women’s Nonviolent Resistance Against Petro-capitalist Violence Asia 19. Uprooted: Dispossession, Refugees and Migrant Labour in the Middle East and Palestine 20. Learning From Colonial Capitalist History: The Forced Migration of Filipino Migrant Workers, Migrant Worker Organizing and Contestations 21. Supply Chain Fabrications and Dreams of Smart Wages in Bangladesh’s Garment Industry 22. Building Resistance Among Small and Landless Peasants in the Face of Trade Liberalisation of the Dairy and Livestock Sector in Pakistan 23. The Movement is the School: Political Learning in the 2020 Farmers Occupation in India 24. Indigenous and Peasant Political Struggles Contesting Neo/Colonial Racial Capitalist 25. Afterword
About the author
Dip Kapoor is with the Center for Research & Development Solidarity (CRDS), an Adivasi-Dalit Indigenous and landless peasant organization in India and is a Professor (University of Alberta) in International Development Education working with Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker social movements in the exploitation colonies. His co-edited collections with Dr. Aziz Choudry include,
Learning from the Ground-Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (2010) and
NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects (2009).
Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia (2020) (with Steven Jordan) and
Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession: Local Resistance in South & East Asia, the Pacific and Africa (2017) are other recent collections.
Summary
This book critically assesses the system of capitalist development being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era.. An important work for students and scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development, indigenous, peasant, and migrant/labour studies.
