Description:
This article focuses on social movements as learning sites in Gramscian terms of hegemony and counter-hegemony. The author relates the emancipatorial aspects of the Swedish tradition of liberal adult education, to the early 2000s new (and older) social movements challenging for example neo-liberal and corporate globalization. Hence the article presents a perspective on learning environments and public spheres created within progressive social movements as possible sites of counter-hegemonic activity.