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Books by Aziz Choudry






The University and Social Justice
Struggles Across the Globe (Paperback)
by Aziz Choudry
Paperback, Published 2020 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4068-5, ISBN: 0-7453-4068-7






Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
History's Schools (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally
Paperback, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-88842-8, ISBN: 0-367-88842-4






Learning Activism(1st Edition)
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
by Aziz Choudry
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-0790-3, ISBN: 1-4426-0790-4

"What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Drawing on his own personal experiences in activism, and from a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that these movements can best be understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Exampl ..."






Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
by Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-149-3, ISBN: 1-62963-149-3

"Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist crisis. Labour markets have been restru ..."






Just Work?
Migrant Workers' Struggle Today
by Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2015 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3583-4, ISBN: 0-7453-3583-7

"Just Work? offers a vast range of original, grass-roots perspectives on global migrant labour organising in the twenty-first century. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers’ structures in Hong Kong, this volume will bring together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Highlighting the cha ..."






NGOization(Updated)
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
by Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor, Zed Books
Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78032-257-5, ISBN: 1-78032-257-7

"The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged - or reinforced - the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, soci ..."






Fight Back(Updated)
Workplace Justice for Immigrants (Basics from Fernwood Publishing)
by Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Steve Jordan, Eric Shragge, Martha Stiegman
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by Fernwood Publishing Co., Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-1-55266-297-7, ISBN: 1-55266-297-7

"Examining immigration within an international context, this discussion explores the complex issues surrounding immigrant workers. Based on the collaboration between a group of university-affiliated researchers and community organizations, this detailed study explores the policies regarding immigrants and presents an account of an advocacy group constantly striving to improve their rights. Documenting actual experiences in a variety of w ..."






Organize!(1st Edition)
Building from the Local for Global Justice
by Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-433-5, ISBN: 1-60486-433-8

"Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based labor-organizing strategies among immigrant workers to mobilizing psychiatric survivors, from arts and activism for Palestine to organizing in support of indigenous peoples, each es ..."






The University and Social Justice
Struggles Across the Globe (Hardback)
by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4067-8, ISBN: 0-7453-4067-9

"Explores activist movements in higher education from around the world, and their connections to broader anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles."






Learning from the Ground Up
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
by Dip Kapoor, Aziz Choudry
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-62103-9, ISBN: 0-230-62103-1

"The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Written by authors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, A ..."






Learning from the Ground Up(Reprint)
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
by Dip Kapoor, Aziz Choudry, A. Choudry
Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-31077-4, ISBN: 1-137-31077-4

"The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings of dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Written by authors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Afri ..."






Learning Activism
The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements (Hardback)
by Aziz Choudry
Hardcover, Published 2015 by University Of Toronto Press, Canada
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-0791-0, ISBN: 1-4426-0791-2






Organize!
Building from the Local for Global Justice
by Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge
352 Pages, Published 2012 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-60486-726-8, ISBN: 1-60486-726-4

"Radha. D'Souza. “Rights” and Contemporary Social Movements Going by the demands made by social movements, it would seem that in the nineteenth century people demanded political fixes to problems, in the twentieth century they demanded economic fixes, and the twenty-first century is the century for legal fixes. No matter what the problem, there is a familiar pattern in contemporary social justice movements' approaches to the solutio ..."






Learning from the Ground Up(1st Edition)
Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production
by Dip Kapoor, Aziz Choudry, D. Kapoor, A. Choudry
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-1-349-38315-3, ISBN: 1-349-38315-5

"The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces."






Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements(1st Edition)
History's Schools (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally
Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-05910-8, ISBN: 1-138-05910-2

"How do educators and activists in today’s struggles for change use historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for political education? How do they create and engage with independent and often informal archives and debates? How do they ultimately connect this historical knowledge with contemporary struggles? Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements aims to advance the understanding of relationships between lea ..."






Just Work
Migrant Workers Struggles Today (Hardback)
by Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2015 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3584-1, ISBN: 0-7453-3584-5

"This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century."






NGOization(1st Edition)
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects (Hardback)
by Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor, D. Kapoor
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78032-258-2, ISBN: 1-78032-258-5

"The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged - or reinforced - the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, soci ..."






Activists and the Surveillance State(1st Edition)
Learning from Repression
by Choudry, Aziz
224 Pages, Published 2019 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3780-7, ISBN: 0-7453-3780-5






Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
History's Schools
by Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally
260 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-67230-6, ISBN: 1-351-67230-4

"... but these shifts do not disrupt the narrative structure of the nationalist biography.16 The characterisation of Tiny Rowland in Callinicos's three publications ... A 1993 book on Rowland adapted Heath's phrase in its sub-title: “ the ugly face of neo-colonialism in Africa” (see EIR Investigative Team 1993), and the definitive biography of Rowland concludes with the damning judgement: “ Ostensibly [Rowland] pursued an altruistic v ..."






Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
by Aziz Choudry, Adrian Smith
224 Pages, Published 2016 by Pm Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-62963-258-2, ISBN: 1-62963-258-9

"(Stasiulis and Bakan 2005, 64) The LCP is an example of a piece of legislation and a policy package based on decades of past practices that presume and perpetuate patterns of systemic discrimination. The employing families are overwhelmingly white, two-income professional earners, male and female heterosexual couples with two or more children, and Canadian citizens (Belleau and Langevin 2000; Stasiulis and Bakan 2005). The employee ..."



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