Aziz Choudry
- Affiliation: McGill University
Aziz Choudry is assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. His areas of research and teaching include popular education, social movements, global justice, and social change (in particular, the construction and production of knowledge in social movements and community organizations), activist/community research methodologies, colonialism, imperialism and anti-colonial struggles, and the political economy of international aid and development. Aziz’s current research focuses on learning in social action and knowledge production in activist/social movement milieus, particularly, on issues of power and knowledge in local and transnational community organizing, in NGO/social movement networks and in histories, knowledge and theory ‘from below.’ His work challenges the superiority of Western, professionalized forms of knowledge, by exploring questions of education, development, social justice and resistance through a critical, interdisciplinary, anti-colonial lens. One of his recent research projects on immigrant workers’ rights and learning/knowledge. Aziz is also involved with community and social justice activitists. Professor Choudry has recently published articles and book chapters on pedagogies of mobilization, informal education and coalition politics. His articles have appeared in, among other publications, Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, Canadian Dimension and International Education.
Books by Aziz Choudry
Fight Back
Work Place Justice for Immigrants
Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Steve Jordan, Eric Shragge, Martha Stiegman
Displacement of people, migration, immigration and the demand for labour are connected to the fundamental restructuring of capitalism and to the reduction of working class power through legislation to free the market from “state interference.” The consequence is that a large number of immigrant and temporary foreign workers face relentless competition and little in the way of protection in the labour market. Globally and in Canada, immigrant workers are not passive in the face of these… (more information)