African Social Movement Learning : The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement

Langdon, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 9004422072 / ISBN 13: 9789004422070

Editore: Brill, 2020

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• Titolo: African Social Movement Learning : The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement
• Editore: Brill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004422072
• ISBN 13: 9789004422070
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

How social movements learn in struggle, produce knowledge, and provoke public paradigm shifts have become an important focus of critical adult education in our contemporary turbulent times. And yet, African social movements, and their learning are largely absent from this literature. This work, therefore, provides a rare and much needed African contribution to this field.

African Social Movement Learning: The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement speaks to this gap in the literature, laying out an entry-point to an African-centered account of learning in struggle on the continent. However, this entry-point quickly turns to an in-depth sharing of one particular case of African social movement learning. Based on 9 years of research with the Ada Songor salt movement in Ghana, the book provides a detailed account of learning through defending communal access to West Africa’s largest salt yielding lagoon in the face of local, national and global efforts to expropriate this resource. The book shares the knowledge production of the movement, as well as the ways in which the movement has restoried its struggle to meet new challenges. Songs, tapestries, demonstrations, manifestoes, popular education approaches, and book production all feature in these efforts.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jonathan Langdon, Ph.D. (McGill), is Associate Professor in Adult Education and Development Studies at St. Francis Xavier University. He has published many articles and chapters on social movement learning, as well as edited Indigenous Knowledges, Development and Education (Sense Publishers, 2009).