"Linking Scholarship and Activism in Migration Societies: Critical Inquiries" w/ Aziz Choudry [EMMIR/University of Oldenburg, Germany]
Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he is affiliated to the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation. He is author or co-author of several books including Learning Activism:The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (University of Toronto Press, 2015), and co-editor of Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto Press, 2015), Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada (2016,PM Press), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History's Schools (Routledge, 2017). His newest publication is Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning From Repression (Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2018), edited by Choudry. Prof. Choudry serves on the boards of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal, and the Global Justice Ecology Project.