The University and Social Justice
Struggles Across the Globe
$72.43
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
20 February 2020
Summary
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 decolonisation 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745340685 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745340687 |
| Author: | Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 20 February 2020 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
‘Student movements all over the world, covered in The University and Social Justice, show the potential student protest has to challenge the current order’
– Counterfire‘Essential reading for anyone interested in the state of Higher Education across the globe’
– LSE Review of BooksAziz 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 (CERT), University of Johannesburg. He is editor of Activists and the Surveillance State (Pluto, 2019) and co-editor of Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today (Pluto, 2016).
Salim Vally is Professor and Director of CERT, Faculty of Education, at the University of Johannesburg and the National Research Foundation - South African Research Initiative’s Chair in Community, Adult and Workers Education. He is co-editor of Education, Economy and Society (UNISA Press, 2014), and Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History’s Schools (Routledge, 2018).
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