The world and US social forums : a better world is possible and necessary
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The world and US social forums : a better world is possible and necessary
Brill, 2008
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The WSF/USSF is an expression of the people's struggles to advance alternatives to the world-as-we-know-it. Since its first convening in 2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, it has captured the imagination of all who have come within its orbit and caught up by its vast and growing networks. It provides a large space for groups to mobilize, voice their oppression, exchange ideas, and express their desire for hope and another world. Central in the founding principles of the World Social Forum are: the advance of peoples' rights (including women's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the rights of minorities, the rights of peasant farmers, and, generally, the rights and dignity of all peoples now oppressed), participatory democracy, social and cultural pluralism, and the end of market tyranny. This volume captures the full range of topics dealing with the WSF/USSF. It is a fresh treatment of materials for the "insider" and provides ample background for someone who would like to attend.
Originally published, in part, as Volume 3, No. 1 (2008) of Brill's journal Societies Without Borders
Table of Contents
Preface: Immanuel Wallerstein
Introduction: Marina Karides and Judith Blau
Part I. Social Forum Process: The USSF and Its Relation to the WSF
1. Marina Karides and Thomas Ponniah, In Defense of World Social Forum VII
2. Michael Guerrero, The US Social Forum: Building From the Bottom Up
3. Jackie Smith, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Christopher Hausmann, New Politics Emerging at the US Social Forum
4. Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott, Another United States is Happening: Building Today's Movement from the Bottom-up: The United States Social Forum and Beyond
5. Michal Osterweil, A Different (Kind of)Politics is Possible: Conflict and Problem(s) at the USSF
Part II. Debates and Social Thought: Highlighting the World Social Forum
6. Janet Conway, Reading Nairobi: Place, Space, and Difference at the 2007 World Social Forum
7. Peter Waterman, Is the World Social Forum the Privileged Space for Reinventing Labour as a Global Social Movement?
8. Stellan Vinthagen, Is the World Social Forum a Democratic Global Civil Society?
9. Chico Whitaker, Social Forums - Challenges and New Perspectives
Part III. Bridging Activism and Academics
10. Patrick Bond, Reformist Reforms, Non-Reformist Reforms and Global Justice: Activist, NGO and Intellectual Challenges in the World Social Forum
11. Lyndi Hewitt, Feminists and the Forum: Is It Worth the Effort?
12. Mark Frezzo, Sociology, Human Rights, and the World Social Forum
13. Steven Sherman, Another Structure of Knowledge is Possible: The Social Forum Process and Academia
14. Eunice Sahle, World Social Forum: Re-imaging Development and the Global South Beyond the Neo-colonial Gaze
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