Movement Work and Healing Justice: Building the Base in Non-Urban Spaces

• In Event: Activist-Scholarship as Method: Re-Thinking Knowledge Production, Community-based Sociality, and Liberatory Futurities

Abstract

This paper engages the unique issue areas faced by organizers and social justice organizations in non-urban areas, whose organizing models are often distinct from those of urban areas. Recounting the creation of the Central Coast Social Justice Academy in California, Johnson reflects on what it has meant to support community organizing efforts in the region and to enhance movement-building skills, leadership, and local networks in a time of great peril for the base.

Author

• Gaye Theresa Johnson, University of California-Los Angeles