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The University and Social Justice
Struggles Across the Globe
Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical, and quality public education has turned university campuses globally into sites of struggle.
Whether calling for the decommodification or the decolonization of education, many of these struggles have attempted to draw on (and, in turn, resonate with) longer histories of popular resistance, broader social movements, and radical visions of a fairer world.
In this critical collection, Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally, and a host of international contributors bring grounded, analytical accounts of diverse struggles relating to higher education into conversation with each other.
Featuring contributions written by students and staff members on the frontline of struggles from 12 different countries, including Canada, Chile, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Occupied Palestine, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S., the book asks what can be learned from these movements’ strategies, demands, and visions.
Contributors
Aziz Choudry
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, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg. He has been involved in a range of social, political and environmental justice movements and organisations since the 1980s. He is author of Learning Activism: The intellectual life of contemporary social movements (2015: University of Toronto Press), co-author of Fight Back: Workplace justice for immigrants (2009: Fernwood) and editor of Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from repression (2018: Pluto/Between The Lines). His co-edited books include Organize! Building from the local for global justice (2012: PM Press/Between The Lines), NGOization: Complicity, contradictions and prospects (2013: Zed Books), Unfree Labour: Struggles of migrant and immigrant workers in Canada (2016: PM Press), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History’s schools (2018: Routledge).
Vally Salim
Salim Vally is Professor and Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, where he holds the DHET-NRF SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Worker Education. He is also Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University (NMU), South Africa. He is the co-editor of Education, Economy and Society (2014: UNISA Press), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History’s schools (2018: Routledge). Vally worked as an education official in the trade union movement in South Africa for ten years before joining academia.
