ABSTRACT
This chapter explains an extended exploration of an activist methodology. Extended because it sits alongside a justification of researching social movements as outside researcher, rather than as insider activist. The chapter argues that post-disciplinary ethos supports the notion of radical democracy as it allows for complexity, contention, imagination and the temporality of knowledges. This form of radical research was employed because it allows an exploration of a mix of the politics and pedagogy that are essential to the way the sites work. The stories from the actions were examined initially to produce the descriptions of the sites, and to get a sense of what was being said in order to mine theory to find ways of thinking about the education and pedagogy that took place that interrelated with the data. Drawing upon critical theory, bricoleurs work towards an evolving criticality that melds several social-theoretical traditions in the effort to understand the way power operates to perpetuate itself.
