ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the significance of identity politics to collective action for social change. It explains the ways in which the authors thinking is shaped by Freirean-feminist theory, which in turn informs author research methodology. The chapter outlines stages of a process which offers insight into the nature of sustainable alliances, and use this as a structure for examining the ways in which author initial research has led to new directions of exploring the evolution of alliance on an international or global level. This wider perspective illuminates the extent to which author's evolving model of the process remains relevant. The chapter argues that the feminist and anti-racist identity necessary for collective action is achievable, can be named, and charted from women's experience. It concludes that author research appropriately poses questions of levels of alliance and the potential for work of this kind to inform and shape critical education in a community development context.
