Embodied Learning Processes in Social Action

Abstract

Given the current socio-political climate of injustice, increasing our understanding of activist learning processes in a social action setting is of fundamental importance to radical social change. This paper explores the embodied learning processes of one group of activists in Australia as they engage in direct action work. More specifically, it focuses on animal liberation activists across Australia. Drawing on current doctoral research, this paper shows how the mind, emotions and the physical body interplay with the learning process in practices of activism. It is argued that these embodied processes (mind-emotion-body) involve a ‘see-feel-learn’ sequence rather than a rational process of ‘analyse-think-learn’ encouraging us to rethink the nature of learning processes in direct action activism.

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