This article outlines, critiques, and revises Griff Foley's analytical framework for the study of informal learning in social action. This reformulation is prompted by the author's own research on young women's experiences and learning in social struggle, and by the need to take into account the interdependence of systems of domination underlying their actions. She draws on anticapitalist and antiracist feminist theory to integrate an analysis of White supremacy and patriarchy within a Marxist political economy. This article helps to reconceptualize the study of learning in social movements so that it may contend with the complexity of society, social struggles, and the contexts in which learning takes place.

The authors of this article are staff members of a not-for-profit and non-hierarchical Canadian social justice organization. As members of a co-management team, they were mandated by their colleagues to lead research on the organization’s practice. In this article, they share their experience of conducting feminist participatory action research in an environment that functions by consensus. They provide an overview of the organization’s work and structure, then outline how the collective research process unfolded. The authors then discuss the synergy between the organizational structure and the research, that is, how staff members’ practice and commitment to process and consensus facilitated and strengthened the research. Finally, they share findings related to the importance of process for building alliances, learning, and collective action domestically and internationally.

This article explores women’s use of humor in recounting their experiences and involvement in social justice movements and community groups. The author’s approach is qualitative and reflexive and explicitly presents her struggle with her role as a researcher/activist. She explores issues of relationship, solidarity and conflict in qualitative research, particularly feminist methodologies.

Kuyek challenges us to resist, not merely through our individual purchasing decisions, but also through building interconnected community food systems in which we reclaim control over seed supply and food security. At the same time, he says, we need to challenge the regulatory and technological mechanisms that make it next to impossible for a vibrant seed-saving and plant-breeding network to emerge. Reclaiming our food system is a complicated project; Good Crop/Bad Crop helps us to understand how we got here in the first place and, just as importantly, how to imagine a way forward.