Currently being facilitated in communities facingthe impacts of multiple deprivation across the UK due to budget cuts and government welfare reforms.
Are you living and learning on your own or with people to get to the bottom of injustice, oppression or resistance? 'Militant research' , by definition, means 'getting to the root of', and recognises that any research and organising involving relations of power is 'inevitably political'. Research is a political process in many ways. Who researches and how; whose experience is researched and how that is named or categorised; what discourses gain currency and hold power; what forms of inquiry and writing are favoured by 'mainstream' power-holders and much more are political issues.
This workshop provides insight into how we can research and organise in a manner which confronts structural injustice with confrontation, militancy, honesty and compassion. It highlights that no matter how much society denies that we aren't political beings in a highly-politicised world, everyone of course has natural bias, preconceptions and ideas. Militant research techniques are seen as a way to engage in 'deep' participatory approaches to social justice whilst being comfortable in our understanding as politically charged beings (by default of being alive). It further provides a set of tools that relate to existing movements and groups for radical change by adding research components where you can take a direct role in producing knowledge and strategies that resonate with initiatives which tackle the root causes of injustice.
