Understanding social movements
For decades community groups, the women's movement and other social justice movements have been the driving force behind equality in Ireland, while global justice activists have highlighted the crisis of climate change and neo-liberalism. As economies falter and social partnership collapses, what do we already know about how to change the world? This course brings together experienced activists in community education and social movements with those interested and motivated about social justice to create new knowledge and develop alternatives.
Do you want to join us on this learning journey?
(Poster download / printout from 2010 here).
The teaching on this course draws on two things: university-based research and social movement practice. It's particularly nice when these two things come together, as they do in what has variously been called activist research, movement-relevant research, engaged research and so on.
Some of the people doing participant action research on social movements at PhD level in NUIM Sociology are hosting a joint workshop with the Political Ethnography research group from Nottingham's Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice from June 18th - 20th, which will focus both on sharing particular skills and on some of the results of this kind of research.
There's an invitation to present here as well as details of how to book etc. A full programme will be published there once all the proposals for presentations have come in (deadline 24th May).
