by Yuriko Cowper-Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Guelph. Yuriko Cowper-Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and International Development (with a major in Comparative Politics and a minor in Public Policy) at the University of Guelph. Her main research interests lie in migration, statelessness, and social movements, and her dissertation research investigates the migrant-led Rohingya social movement in Canada. For three years, she has worked with this diaspora community by volunteering, organizing, and attending events, and raising public awareness about the refugee crisis and genocide through her research and writing. She currently volunteers with The Sentinel Project, a non-governmental organization that tracks early signs of genocide, and the Canadian Centre on Statelessness. Yuriko visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in the fall of 2018. Additionally, she has extensive experience working in community-based research. For three years, she worked on research projects with various community partners as a part of her role at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph. Yuriko’s research has been supported by an Ontario Graduate Fellowship, and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.     Rohingya activists in Canada have built a social movement around the genocide they face in Myanmar, and the refugee crisis they face in Bangladesh. In my research with the Rohingya social movement in Canada, I find that one of the key features of the movement is the development of knowledge-practices (Casas-Cortes, Osterweil & Powell, 2008). Knowledge-practices are sites where knowledge is generated, modified and mobilized (Ibid). To make this point in my research, I draw on della Porta and Pavan’s (2017) repertoire of knowledge-practices in social movements where they categorize them into four groups: knowledge-practices of collective self, action network, political alternatives, and transmission. This typology frames the main findings of my dissertation, and in this blog, I elaborate on the knowledge-practices of collective self. Knowledge-practices of collective self refer to the processes in which individual experiences and thought processes merge into a larger cosmology that guides action (Eyerman & Jamison, 1991). Pavan and Felicetti (2019) define them as “the vision that grounds a collective endeavor as well as the envisaged or actual practices that transform this vision into reality” (pp. 3-4).  In other words, these knowledge-practices are the ethos or the political vision of a social movement (della Porta & Pavan, 2017)....