Choudry , Aziz and Kapoor, Dip (Eds) (2010). Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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 within social movements and social activist contexts. Containing fourteen chapters written by authors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, Learning from the Ground Up articulates and documents knowledge production, informal learning, and education work that takes place in everyday worlds of social activism. It highlights linkages between such knowledge and praxis/action, and illustrates tensions over whose knowledge and voices are heard. Of particular interest to RC44 members, several contributions by Robyn Rodriguez, Mario Novelli, Biju Mathew, and David Bleakney/Michael Morrill focus on knowledge, power and struggle in trade unions and im/migrant worker alliances.
