Prof. Aziz Choudry
McGill University, Canada
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
McGill University, Canada
- Research Interests: Focuses on learning in social action and knowledge production in activist/social movement milieus. He is interested in examining issues of power, knowledge and social relations in local and transnational community organizing/NGO/trade union/social movement networks, and histories, knowledge and theory ‘from below’. He explores questions of education, development, social justice and resistance through a critical, interdisciplinary, anti-colonial lens which connects theory to practice; also works on immigrant and migrant labour issues
- Involved in community and social justice activities (such as, board member, Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal)
- Principal investigator on two funded research grants: 1) a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) standard research grant, and 2) a Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (MELS) Fonds des services aux collectivités grant, in partnership with le Centre international de documentation et d’information haïtienne, caribéenne et afro-canadienne (CIDIHCA), Montreal
- Collaborator (with Principal Investigator, Dr Jill Hanley, McGill School of Social Work) Les droits sociaux des travailleurs migrants en régions : un projet de développement de compétences des intervenants communautaires, in partnership with the Immigrant Workers Centre/Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrant(e)s, Montreal
- Board Member/North America Regional Representative, Research Committee on Labour Movements (RC44), International Sociological Association,
- Co-editor (with Anila Asghar and Teresa Strong-Wilson), McGill Journal of Education
- Member, the global spokescouncil
- Regional editor, Interface – a journal for and about social movements
- Member, editorial boards of the journals Labour, Capital and Society and Socialist Studies.
- Co-organized, the New Voices in Labour Studies conference held at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (March 2012)
