{"product_id":"african-social-movement-learning-the-case-of-the-ada-songor-salt-movement-9789004422070","title":"African Social Movement Learning: The Case of the Ada Songor Salt Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword   Anne Harley  List of Illustrations    Chapter 1: Introduction   Social Movement and Social Movement Learning Studies   Social Movement Learning in Ghana – A Gathering of Voices   A History of Movements Defending Communal Access   Moving with the Ada Movement   Structure of the Book    Chapter 2: African Social Movements and Learning   Social Movement Studies and Subaltern Movements   Social Movement Learning and Critical Adult Education   1st Wave: African Liberation Movements   From the 2nd Wave of Democratization to the 3rd Wave of Contemporary Ctruggles   2nd Wave: African Democracy Movements   3rd Wave: Protest Movements in Contemporary Times   Moving from Africa to Ada    Chapter 3: Ada Movement Knowledge Production, Questioning National Development   National Development and Neoliberalism as Topographies of Power   The Adas, a Salt People from the Start   Ada Songor Focus of British Colonial Divide and Rule Tactics in Area   Ghana Emerges from the Gold Coast Colony, but the Post Independence State Still Promotes the National over the Local   Adas Dispossessed, Fight back through Legal, Political and Physical Means   A New Dispossession on the Horizon Means New Tactics Are Needed   Resisting the National Development and Neoliberal Narrative    Chapter 4: Stories and Restorying as Social Movement Learning   Literacy of Struggle   Challenging How the Root Causes of Struggle are Framed   The Thumbless Hand, the Chameleon, and the Dog   Challenging Male Dominance through Rooted Restorying   The Struggle of the Songor Salt People Book Project   Restorying Struggle as Learning    Chapter 5: The Pedagogy of Creative Dissent: Using Creativity to Broaden and Deepen Social Movement Learning   Introduction   Creative Dissent and Pedagogy   Creativity, Learning and Democratizing Knowledge   Overlapping Registers of “Spreading” Learning and Creativity    Chapter 6: Conclusion   African Subaltern Movements Thinking and Acting on Their Future   African Subaltern Social Movements Producing Potential   Creativity and Non-Violent Activism   Where the Movement Is Headed Now, or the Latest Area of Learning   Learning in, through and to Struggle    Appendix A  References  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210792722775,"sku":"9789004422070","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-social-movement-learning-the-case-of-the-ada-songor-salt-movement-9789004422070","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}