This book is a critical excavation of capitalist development that is being driven by the Global North in the modern (neo)colonial era, with a related focus on the anticolonial and anticapitalist resistance by Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and migrant workers in Africa, Asia/Middle East, and the Americas/Caribbean.
Informed by the work of Dr. Abdul Aziz Choudry, the contributors demonstrate how Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker learning in political action and knowledge production are essential for growing and sustaining social movements and organised struggles. The collection demonstrates how these resistances challenge racialized processes of territorial occupation, accumulation by dispossession, exploitation, and cultural and educational imperialism. Focusing on the regions of the Americas/Caribbean, Africa, Asia/Middle East, and across both settler and exploitation colonies, the chapters amplify Indigenous, peasant, and migrant worker activism and draw out critical perspectives pertaining to colonial capital.
The Indigenous, anticolonial, and anticapitalist politics highlighted in this book will be essential reading for activists engaged with international relations and social change. It will also inform the work of students and critical scholars of social movement and resistance studies, critical development studies, Indigenous studies, peasant and critical agrarian studies, migrant/labour studies, sociology, political science, and regional/area studies.
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.
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, Womens Unwaged Caring Work and
Organizing Through Time-Use in Guyana
11. Neoliberal Austerity, Black
Feminist Politics, and the Exploitation of Black Womens 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
Choudrys 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 Womens
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 Bangladeshs 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
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.
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