Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).Steven Jordan chairs the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University, Canada. He also currently serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Action Research. His previous books include the collection Education, Participatory Action Research and Social Change (co-edited with Dip Kapoor, 2009).

• Research for indigenous, peasant and urban poor activism: Capital, dispossession and exploitation in the Americas and Asia - Dip Kapoor & Steven JordanPart I: Research and Indigenous and Peasant Activisms2.The MST and research with and for landless peasant-worker struggles in Brazil - Alessandro Mariano & Rebecca Tarlau3.Critical oral histories and the pedagogies of dispossession and resistance in Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement - David Meek4.Participatory research for social change in mining and agribusiness settings in Colombia - Irene Vélez-Torres 5.Anticolonial Participatory Action Research (APAR) in Adivasi-Dalit forest-dweller and small peasant contexts of dispossession and struggle in India - Dip Kapoor6.Conservation and palm oil dispossession in Sumatra and Sulawesi: Third-Worldist PAR, indigenous and small peasant resistance and organized activismsHasriadi Masalam7.PAR, local knowledge and peasant assertions in Southwestern Bangladesh: Taking back the river in contexts of NGO-led dispossession - Bijoy Barua (East-West University, Bangladesh)8.Grassroots-oriented research as political engagement for social justice: Exposing corporate mining in indigenous contexts in the Philippines - Ligaya McGovernPart II: Research and Urban Poor Activisms9.Countering dispossession through cooperativisation? Waste-picker ethnography, activism and the state in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Paraguay) - Santiago Sorroche & Patrick O’Hare 10. Historians, guerilla history and class struggle in Argentina - Pablo Pozzi 11.Public sociology and scholar activism in the U.S.-Filipino Labor diaspora - Robyn Rodriguez 12.The Bhopal (India) struggle and neoliberal restructuring: Research, political engagement and the urban poor - Eurig Scandrett & Shalini Sharma13.Praxis-oriented research for the building of grounded transnational Marriage Migrant Movements in Asia - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Rich in insights from practical experience, this book is essential reading for everyone who aspires to make decolonized academic knowledge serve people resisting dispossession and the silencing of their voices

Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).Steven Jordan chairs the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University, Canada. He also currently serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Action Research. His previous books include the collection Education, Participatory Action Research and Social Change (co-edited with Dip Kapoor, 2009).

• Research for indigenous, peasant and urban poor activism: Capital, dispossession and exploitation in the Americas and Asia - Dip Kapoor & Steven JordanPart I: Research and Indigenous and Peasant Activisms2.The MST and research with and for landless peasant-worker struggles in Brazil - Alessandro Mariano & Rebecca Tarlau3.Critical oral histories and the pedagogies of dispossession and resistance in Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement - David Meek4.Participatory research for social change in mining and agribusiness settings in Colombia - Irene Vélez-Torres 5.Anticolonial Participatory Action Research (APAR) in Adivasi-Dalit forest-dweller and small peasant contexts of dispossession and struggle in India - Dip Kapoor6.Conservation and palm oil dispossession in Sumatra and Sulawesi: Third-Worldist PAR, indigenous and small peasant resistance and organized activismsHasriadi Masalam7.PAR, local knowledge and peasant assertions in Southwestern Bangladesh: Taking back the river in contexts of NGO-led dispossession - Bijoy Barua (East-West University, Bangladesh)8.Grassroots-oriented research as political engagement for social justice: Exposing corporate mining in indigenous contexts in the Philippines - Ligaya McGovernPart II: Research and Urban Poor Activisms9.Countering dispossession through cooperativisation? Waste-picker ethnography, activism and the state in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Paraguay) - Santiago Sorroche & Patrick O’Hare 10. Historians, guerilla history and class struggle in Argentina - Pablo Pozzi 11.Public sociology and scholar activism in the U.S.-Filipino Labor diaspora - Robyn Rodriguez 12.The Bhopal (India) struggle and neoliberal restructuring: Research, political engagement and the urban poor - Eurig Scandrett & Shalini Sharma13.Praxis-oriented research for the building of grounded transnational Marriage Migrant Movements in Asia - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Rich in insights from practical experience, this book is essential reading for everyone who aspires to make decolonized academic knowledge serve people resisting dispossession and the silencing of their voices

Dip Kapoor is a professor in international development education at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a board member at the Center for Research and Development Solidarity (CRDS), an organisation in Odisha, India which advocates for peasant and Adivasi-Dalit communities. His previous books include NGOization (Zed 2013) as well as the edited collections Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (Zed 2015) and Against Colonization and Rural Dispossession (Zed 2017).Steven Jordan chairs the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University, Canada. He also currently serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Action Research. His previous books include the collection Education, Participatory Action Research and Social Change (co-edited with Dip Kapoor, 2009).

• Research for indigenous, peasant and urban poor activism: Capital, dispossession and exploitation in the Americas and Asia - Dip Kapoor & Steven JordanPart I: Research and Indigenous and Peasant Activisms2.The MST and research with and for landless peasant-worker struggles in Brazil - Alessandro Mariano & Rebecca Tarlau3.Critical oral histories and the pedagogies of dispossession and resistance in Brazil's Landless Workers’ Movement - David Meek4.Participatory research for social change in mining and agribusiness settings in Colombia - Irene Vélez-Torres 5.Anticolonial Participatory Action Research (APAR) in Adivasi-Dalit forest-dweller and small peasant contexts of dispossession and struggle in India - Dip Kapoor6.Conservation and palm oil dispossession in Sumatra and Sulawesi: Third-Worldist PAR, indigenous and small peasant resistance and organized activismsHasriadi Masalam7.PAR, local knowledge and peasant assertions in Southwestern Bangladesh: Taking back the river in contexts of NGO-led dispossession - Bijoy Barua (East-West University, Bangladesh)8.Grassroots-oriented research as political engagement for social justice: Exposing corporate mining in indigenous contexts in the Philippines - Ligaya McGovernPart II: Research and Urban Poor Activisms9.Countering dispossession through cooperativisation? Waste-picker ethnography, activism and the state in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montevideo (Paraguay) - Santiago Sorroche & Patrick O’Hare 10. Historians, guerilla history and class struggle in Argentina - Pablo Pozzi 11.Public sociology and scholar activism in the U.S.-Filipino Labor diaspora - Robyn Rodriguez 12.The Bhopal (India) struggle and neoliberal restructuring: Research, political engagement and the urban poor - Eurig Scandrett & Shalini Sharma13.Praxis-oriented research for the building of grounded transnational Marriage Migrant Movements in Asia - Hsiao-Chuan Hsia

Rich in insights from practical experience, this book is essential reading for everyone who aspires to make decolonized academic knowledge serve people resisting dispossession and the silencing of their voices