Patricia Boushel is a cultural producer, activist translator, and prison meditator from Montreal. She also ponders questions of rights, justice and democracy through her work as a researcher and community organizer.
March 18, 2016
The fascinating story of how contemporary activists learn from each other and disseminate their knowledge is still being unravelled by acad- emia, as well as by social movements themselves. In Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements, Aziz Choudry,an activist-turned-academic and professor in McGill’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education, pays homage to the intellectual work that is inherently produced and circulated when people get together to challenge oppressive systems.