World Social Forum: Challenging EmpiresPeter Waterman, Jai Sen Black Rose Books, 2009 - 452 Seiten This comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging discussions, debates and arguments which have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of alternative ideas and practices in the present world. Building on the First Edition (published in India by the Viveka Foundation, New Delhi in 2004), this Second Edition has been revised and updated to include coverage of those Social Forums that took place as recent as the summer of 2007. Here is what some critics had to say about the First Edition: If you want to know how the World Social Forum was formed and what the opinion of some of the main actors in it is on issues such as globalization, transnational feminism, justice and peace among others, this is the book to read. - VirtualActivism.org A useful array of writings on the entire WSF process--the global context in which it emerged, the manner in which different movements and ideologies have interacted and shaped this process and the manner in which it has itself grown in the past years. - Aniket Alam, The Hindu An excellent effort at combining both information and critical reflection on the World Social Forum phenomenon. - Massimo De Angelis World Social Forum: Challenging Empires is a stupendous collection of essays, documents and statements, a critical self-consideration of the WSF process by a variety of people. - Milan Rai, The New Standard A stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading. - Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center Table Of Contents Acknowledgements PART 1 Antecedents: Critical Perspectives World Social Forum Documents PART 2 Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum Movement And Other Independent Documents PART 3 Globalising The Forum: The Forum In The World Movement And Other Independent Documents PART 4 Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds Jai Sen, an architect and a housing-rights activist, is an independent researcher living in New Delhi. Peter Waterman worked for the institute of Social Studies, The Hague, for nearly thirty years. He is the author of Globalisation, Social Movements, and the New Internationalisms. 2007: 475 pages, 6x9, resources, bibliography and index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55164-308-3 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55164-309-0 |
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... idea of the WSF as an open space , and of open space itself , has been deeply critiqued and chal- lenged , 1 it would perhaps be agreed by most , including its critics , that it has nevertheless succeeded in introducing this idea into ...
... idea of the forum as process , such that the accumulated experi- ences may serve as a broad platform for new ... idea - the idea of a global day of action against the crimes of the transnational companies and governments who participate ...
... idea of the vanguard were born more or less together . On the other hand , so was the idea of an artistic avant garde , and the relationship among the three might itself suggest unexpected possibilities . Henri de Saint - Simon coined ...
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For Struggles Global and National | 3 |
A Rerun of the 1930s? | 11 |
Towards a New International? | 19 |
Urheberrecht | |
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