Aziz Choudry
Biographic Data
| ID | 210255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aziz Choudry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aziz |
| FAMILY NAME | Choudry |
| SIGNATURE | CHOUDRY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6218-0535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the blinkered gaze
Transition pathways from vulnerability to viability of small‐scale fisheries in Africa and Asia
This perspective paper examines transition pathways that move small‐scale fisheries from vulnerability towards viability. We understand ‘vulnerability to viability transition pathways’ as integrative and one that extends beyond economic concerns to include social, political, cultural and ecological aspects of small‐scale fisheries. Our findings draw on a reflexive and qualitative assessment of country‐specific case studies from across Africa and …
Dharma-Centric Value Network
Masculinity Under Siege
Masculinity in India has undergone significant transformations due to socio-economic shifts, feminist movements, and globalization. Bollywood has long played a critical role in reflecting and shaping masculine ideals, often reinforcing dominant patriarchal norms. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of hyper-masculinity in Indian cinema, exemplified by Animal (2023), which glorifies aggression, dominance, and emotional detachment as aspir…
Indian Cinema and Cultural Identity
Indian cinema, particularly Bollywood, has played a pivotal role in shaping cultural identity by blending traditional storytelling with contemporary cinematic techniques. Recent scholarship on Indian cinema has increasingly focused on Indian identity, cultural hybridity, transnational cinema, and Bollywood’s role as a vehicle of soft power in global media. Following this, the present study explores how Indian cinema negotiates the intersection of…
Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans
The Indian Sundarbans, the world's largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management. The Sundarbans are well-known as the world's only coastal mangrove habitat of the man-eating Royal Bengal Tigers. This UNESCO World Heritage Site often features in media coverage and popular disco…
Dharma in Sri Aurobindo’s The Renaissance in India and Other Essays on Indian Culture
The University and Social Justice
This article proposes that the inequality and social justice are still pending issues for the higher education. It discusses the issue of the inequality in higher education from three axs: one internal to the institution linked to the specific characteristics of this educational device, one that challenges the social function of the institution, for what you need be read from the articulation between the university and society and a third rather …
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children, I was reminded of the words of African-American activist, Ella Baker: "In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been." At the heart of Ahtahkakoop Cree legal scholar Tamara Starblanket's first book is a searing critique of the exclusion of cultural genocide from the crime of genocide as defined in international law. Starblanket also argues th…
Reflections on academia, activism, and the politics of knowledge and learning
The significant contributions of knowledge produced in contemporary and historical social, political, and environmental struggles are often overlooked or overwritten by accounts by ‘experts’, including scholars of social movements and activism. Much of the writing on research for social change tends to assume that professionals with specialist academic training (perhaps employing certain methodologies that are claimed to be inherently emancipator…
Activists and the Surveillance State
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
K. Ramakrishna Rao and Anand C. Paranjpe, Psychology in the Indian Tradition
Unfree Labour
Understanding Happiness
Examining the Disconnect Between Mass Mobilizations and International Trade Union/NGO Networks in Struggles over Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements
Bilateral free trade and investment agreements (FTAs) have proliferated since the breakdown of multilateral negotiations. In several countries, these newer agreements have elicited large movements and mobilizations, yet have attracted relatively little attention from transnational ‘civil society’ networks concerned with global justice. This article suggests that there has frequently been a disconnect between major mobilizations against FTAs in a …
Activist research and organizing
This article draws from ongoing research into the practices and processes of activist researchers. It discusses social relations of knowledge production located outside of academia with/in social movement milieus. Focusing on the politics of research in people’s organizations and social movement organizations in the Philippines, it builds on interviews with activist researchers. It argues for a Marxist theory of praxis which insists upon the unit…
Understanding Happiness
(Almost) Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Activist Research but Were Afraid to Ask
This article seeks to explore the work of activist researchers located in social movements, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and people’s organisations with close relations to contemporary progressive grassroots struggles in a number of countries, mainly in the global South. Drawing from extensive interviews with these researchers on their processes and practice of research and knowledge production, located outside of academic institutions a…
Struggles Against Bilateral FTAs
The past decade has seen major movements and mobilizations against the new crop of bilateral free trade and investment agreements being pursued by governments in the wake of the failure of global (World Trade Organization) and regional (e.g. Free Trade Area of the Americas) negotiations, and the defeat of an attempted Multilateral Agreement on Investment in the 1990s. However, in spite of much scholarly, non-governmental organization (NGO) and ac…
Disciplining Dissent
In the context of neo-liberal globalization, we argue that many local community organizations and international development and advocacy NGOs share certain characteristics that impact struggles for justice, North and South. These include professionalization, collaboration with, and recognition and support from the state and/or international institutions, and a detachment from more critical forms of resistance. Drawing from experience and analysis…
Learning from the Ground Up
The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and under
What's Left? Canada's 'global justice' movement and colonial amnesia
This article examines the failure of Canada's larger, Left-leaning NGOs active in global justice networks to properly engage with the struggles of Indigenous peoples. Taking a 'White progressive economic nationalist' position that fails to examine Canada's historical and contemporary exercise of colonialism, such NGOs end up reproducing myths of nation-building, fail to address colonial injustices closer to home and ignore the resources that Indi…
Reflections on academia, activism, and the politics of knowledge and learning
The significant contributions of knowledge produced in contemporary and historical social, political, and environmental struggles are often overlooked or overwritten by accounts by ‘experts’, including scholars of social movements and activism. Much of the writing on research for social change tends to assume that professionals with specialist academic training (perhaps employing certain methodologies that are claimed to be inherently emancipator…
Disciplining Dissent
In the context of neo-liberal globalization, we argue that many local community organizations and international development and advocacy NGOs share certain characteristics that impact struggles for justice, North and South. These include professionalization, collaboration with, and recognition and support from the state and/or international institutions, and a detachment from more critical forms of resistance. Drawing from experience and analysis…
Examining the Disconnect Between Mass Mobilizations and International Trade Union/NGO Networks in Struggles over Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements
Bilateral free trade and investment agreements (FTAs) have proliferated since the breakdown of multilateral negotiations. In several countries, these newer agreements have elicited large movements and mobilizations, yet have attracted relatively little attention from transnational ‘civil society’ networks concerned with global justice. This article suggests that there has frequently been a disconnect between major mobilizations against FTAs in a …
Activist research and organizing
This article draws from ongoing research into the practices and processes of activist researchers. It discusses social relations of knowledge production located outside of academia with/in social movement milieus. Focusing on the politics of research in people’s organizations and social movement organizations in the Philippines, it builds on interviews with activist researchers. It argues for a Marxist theory of praxis which insists upon the unit…
What's Left? Canada's 'global justice' movement and colonial amnesia
This article examines the failure of Canada's larger, Left-leaning NGOs active in global justice networks to properly engage with the struggles of Indigenous peoples. Taking a 'White progressive economic nationalist' position that fails to examine Canada's historical and contemporary exercise of colonialism, such NGOs end up reproducing myths of nation-building, fail to address colonial injustices closer to home and ignore the resources that Indi…
Learning from the Ground Up
The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and under
What's Left? Canada's 'global justice' movement and colonial amnesia
This article examines the failure of Canada's larger, Left-leaning NGOs active in global justice networks to properly engage with the struggles of Indigenous peoples. Taking a 'White progressive economic nationalist' position that fails to examine Canada's historical and contemporary exercise of colonialism, such NGOs end up reproducing myths of nation-building, fail to address colonial injustices closer to home and ignore the resources that Indi…
Disciplining Dissent
In the context of neo-liberal globalization, we argue that many local community organizations and international development and advocacy NGOs share certain characteristics that impact struggles for justice, North and South. These include professionalization, collaboration with, and recognition and support from the state and/or international institutions, and a detachment from more critical forms of resistance. Drawing from experience and analysis…
Struggles Against Bilateral FTAs
The past decade has seen major movements and mobilizations against the new crop of bilateral free trade and investment agreements being pursued by governments in the wake of the failure of global (World Trade Organization) and regional (e.g. Free Trade Area of the Americas) negotiations, and the defeat of an attempted Multilateral Agreement on Investment in the 1990s. However, in spite of much scholarly, non-governmental organization (NGO) and ac…
Understanding Happiness
(Almost) Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Activist Research but Were Afraid to Ask
This article seeks to explore the work of activist researchers located in social movements, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and people’s organisations with close relations to contemporary progressive grassroots struggles in a number of countries, mainly in the global South. Drawing from extensive interviews with these researchers on their processes and practice of research and knowledge production, located outside of academic institutions a…
Examining the Disconnect Between Mass Mobilizations and International Trade Union/NGO Networks in Struggles over Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements
Bilateral free trade and investment agreements (FTAs) have proliferated since the breakdown of multilateral negotiations. In several countries, these newer agreements have elicited large movements and mobilizations, yet have attracted relatively little attention from transnational ‘civil society’ networks concerned with global justice. This article suggests that there has frequently been a disconnect between major mobilizations against FTAs in a …
Activist research and organizing
This article draws from ongoing research into the practices and processes of activist researchers. It discusses social relations of knowledge production located outside of academia with/in social movement milieus. Focusing on the politics of research in people’s organizations and social movement organizations in the Philippines, it builds on interviews with activist researchers. It argues for a Marxist theory of praxis which insists upon the unit…
Understanding Happiness
Unfree Labour
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
This chapter reflects on the context, process, and challenges of the Know Your Continent (KYC) popular education course which we ran in Cape Town in the second half of 2015. KYC brought together people from local high schools, community activist networks, universities – both students and academics, and others into conversations emerging from themes and debates in African history and their relevance and relationship to our own contemporary context…
Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements
K. Ramakrishna Rao and Anand C. Paranjpe, Psychology in the Indian Tradition
Activists and the Surveillance State
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children, I was reminded of the words of African-American activist, Ella Baker: "In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been." At the heart of Ahtahkakoop Cree legal scholar Tamara Starblanket's first book is a searing critique of the exclusion of cultural genocide from the crime of genocide as defined in international law. Starblanket also argues th…
Reflections on academia, activism, and the politics of knowledge and learning
The significant contributions of knowledge produced in contemporary and historical social, political, and environmental struggles are often overlooked or overwritten by accounts by ‘experts’, including scholars of social movements and activism. Much of the writing on research for social change tends to assume that professionals with specialist academic training (perhaps employing certain methodologies that are claimed to be inherently emancipator…
The University and Social Justice
This article proposes that the inequality and social justice are still pending issues for the higher education. It discusses the issue of the inequality in higher education from three axs: one internal to the institution linked to the specific characteristics of this educational device, one that challenges the social function of the institution, for what you need be read from the articulation between the university and society and a third rather …
Dharma in Sri Aurobindo’s The Renaissance in India and Other Essays on Indian Culture
Masculinity Under Siege
Masculinity in India has undergone significant transformations due to socio-economic shifts, feminist movements, and globalization. Bollywood has long played a critical role in reflecting and shaping masculine ideals, often reinforcing dominant patriarchal norms. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of hyper-masculinity in Indian cinema, exemplified by Animal (2023), which glorifies aggression, dominance, and emotional detachment as aspir…
Indian Cinema and Cultural Identity
Indian cinema, particularly Bollywood, has played a pivotal role in shaping cultural identity by blending traditional storytelling with contemporary cinematic techniques. Recent scholarship on Indian cinema has increasingly focused on Indian identity, cultural hybridity, transnational cinema, and Bollywood’s role as a vehicle of soft power in global media. Following this, the present study explores how Indian cinema negotiates the intersection of…
Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans
The Indian Sundarbans, the world's largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management. The Sundarbans are well-known as the world's only coastal mangrove habitat of the man-eating Royal Bengal Tigers. This UNESCO World Heritage Site often features in media coverage and popular disco…
Beyond the blinkered gaze
Transition pathways from vulnerability to viability of small‐scale fisheries in Africa and Asia
This perspective paper examines transition pathways that move small‐scale fisheries from vulnerability towards viability. We understand ‘vulnerability to viability transition pathways’ as integrative and one that extends beyond economic concerns to include social, political, cultural and ecological aspects of small‐scale fisheries. Our findings draw on a reflexive and qualitative assessment of country‐specific case studies from across Africa and …
Dharma-Centric Value Network
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