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Choudry, Aziz, Jill Hanley, and Eric Shragge, eds. 2012. Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice.
Full text linkChoudry, Aziz, Jill Hanley, and Eric Shragge, eds. 2012. Organize! Building from the Local for Global Justice
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Anti-apartheid people's histories and post-apartheid nationalist biographies
No full textThe chapter contrasts anti-apartheid people's histories and post-apartheid nationalist biographies, focusing on the exemplary work of Luli Callinicos -- her people's histories of the Witwatersrand in the 1980s, her biographical studies of Oliver Tambo in the 1990s and 2000s, and the 2016 play on her early people's histories, 'If We Dig'
Activist learning and state dataveillance: lessons from the UK, South Africa and Mauritius
No full textCollective Approaches to Activist Knowledge: Experiences of the New Anti-Apartheid Movement in Toronto
No full textThe ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1947–1948 that led to the flight of more than three-quarters of the Palestinian population is not simply a painful historical memory. What Palestinians call al-Nakba (catastrophe) remains very much part of lived reality. It is felt in the longing of seven million Palestinians—the world’s largest refugee population—to return to their homes and lands from which they were expelled over six decades ago. It is seen in the segregation of more than three million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to scattered population centers divided from one another by Israeli settlements, military checkpoints, and Israeli-only highways. These open-air prisons—surrounded by the “Apartheid Wall”1 and its associated infrastructure of settlements, military zones, and roads—mean that Palestinians are now confined to approximately twelve percent of historic Palestine. And al-Nakba remains with those Palestinians who stayed on their land and became Israeli citizens, forced to live as second-class people in a state built on the destruction of their national identity
‘An act of struggle in the present’: History, education and political campaigning by South Asian anti-imperialist activists in Britain
Full text linkThis chapter will explore the importance that South Asian campaigning organisations in Britain placed on understanding the history of anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle, in developing their organisations and mobilising supporters. It will explore two distinct case studies. First, it will look at the way Asian Youth Movements in cities such as Bradford, Manchester and Sheffield educated their members and supporters about past and ongoing activism both in the UK and abroad during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The second case study will examine the work of the 1857 Committee, established in 2006 to counteract the hegemonic narratives in the UK and India on the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprising in South Asia. Through these two moments we will reflect on the forms of action that were taken during differing political moments to consider how history has been a) harnessed as a tool through which contemporary campaigns were bolstered and supported; and b) how in moments which appeared quite bleak and in which campaigning work was limited, interrogating and challenging hegemonic histories served as a fulcrum around which progressive South Asian activists rearticulated ideas which challenged religious communal understandings of the past, reaffirmed the value of solidarity between the oppressed and through this process were able to offer a challenge to contemporary imperialist analyses of global events
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The trajectory of the 2010 student movement in the UK: from student activism to strikes
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Activist Research Practice: Exploring Research and Knowledge Production for Social Action
Full text linkResearch is a major aspect and fundamental component of many social struggles and movements for change. Understanding social movement networks as significant sites of knowledge production, this article situates and discusses processes and practice of activist research produced outside of academia in these milieus in the broader context of the ‘knowledge-practice’ of social movements. In dialogue with scholarly literature on activist research, it draws from the author’s work as an activist researcher, and a current study of small activist research non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with examples from movement research on transnational corporate power and resistance to capitalist globalization.. It explicates research processes arising from, and embedded in, relationships and dialogue with other activists and organizations that develop through collaboration in formal and informal networks; it contends that building relationships is central to effective activist research practice. In addition to examining how activist researchers practice, understand and validate their research, this paper also shows how this knowledge is constructed, disseminated and mobilized as a tool for effective social action/organizing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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