Full Description
The World Social Forum (WSF) has become the focus for a diverse array of movements advancing alternative visions of globalisation. The numerous WSF's have helped to connect activists in an increasingly dense network of advocates for radical social change. They have mobilised hundreds of thousands of people and may be one of the most important political developments of our time. The Handbook of World Social Forum Activism brings together leading scholars of the social forum process from North America and Europe. The collection contributes to the ongoing process of reflection from the WSF experience, and is accessible to activists, students and scholars alike.
Contents
Introduction; I: Background and Context; 1: Social Forums as Public Stage and Infrastructure of Global Justice Movements; 2: (In)Fertile Ground?; 3: The Political and its Absence in the World Social Forum:; 4: Surveys of World Social Forum Participants Show Influence of Place and Base in the Global Public Sphere; II: Campaigns and Movements in the Social Forum Process; 5: More Than a Shadow of a Difference?; 6: Indigenous Peoples and Social Forums; 7: Building National Labor Solidarity:; 8: The World Social Forum as a Bounded Open Space:; 9: Our World Is Not for Sale!; 10: Global Environmentalists and Their Movements at the World Social Forums; 11: The Road to the World Social Forum:; III: Local Places and Global Spaces; 12: African Voices and Activists at the WSF in Nairobi:; 13: Global Movements in Local Struggles:; 14: Diverging Visions of Another World in the Making of the Quebec Social Forum; 15: In the Belly of Empire:; IV: Democratic Innovations; 16: Youth Camps and the Bolivarian Revolution; 17: Deliberative Discussion and Languages in the World Social Forum Process; 18: Democratic Innovation in the U.S. and European Social Forums; 19: Transnational Movement Innovation and Collaboration:; The Space as Actor
