World Social Forum : Critical Explorations
Publisher: OpenWord
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9788190480826
Table of contents: title: OpenWord License Policy; title: Acknowledgements & Credits; title: Notes on the Editors; title: Notes on the Contributors; title: Invocations; title: Foreword :; title: Immanuel Wallerstein - The World Social Forum : Great Success, Shaky Future, Passé ?; title: Preface :; title: Peter Waterman - The World Social Forum and this Book : Pessimism of the Intellect and/or Optimism of the Will ?; title: Introduction :; title: Jai Sen - ‘Another World Is Possible !’ : Critical Explorations of the World Social Forum and the dreams it has inspired; title: 1; title: Understanding the WSF : The Roots of the WSF - The WSF as Rhizome; title: 1.1 Charmain Levy – Influence and contribution : Liberation Theology, the Progressive Church in Brazil, and the World Social Forum; title: 1.2 Rodrigo Nunes – The Intercontinental Youth Camp as the Unthought of World Social Forum, Revisited; title: 1.3 Ara Wilson – Feminism in the Space of the World Social Forum; title: 1.4 Janet Conway – Place, Scale, and the Politics of Recognition at the World Social Forum; title: 1.5 Jeffrey S Juris – Social Forums and Their Margins : Networking Logics and the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Space; title: 1.6 Graeme Chesters – The Secret of Fire !  Encountering the Complexity of the World Social Forum; title: 1.7 Jai Sen – Towards Understanding the World Social Forum : Three Proposals; title: 2; title: The Globalisation of the WSF : The Globalisation of Movement; title: 2.1 Geoffrey Pleyers and Raúl Ornelas – Alter-globalisation hits New Ground : Bamako and Caracas 2006; title: 2.2 Ingmar Lee – Reflections on the Polycentric World Social Forum, Karachi; title: 2.3 Pierre Rousset – The Karachi Social Forum and Its International Significance; title: 2.4 Demba Moussa Dembele – African Social Movements and the World Social Forum; title: 2.5 Wangui Mbatia and Hassan Indusa – The World Social Forum 2007 : A Kenyan Perspective; title: 2.6 Virginia Vargas – A Look at Nairobi’s World Social Forum; title: 2.7 Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Nicolas Haeringer – The WSF at Test : Extraversion and Controversies during the World Social Forum in Nairobi; title: 2.8 Michael Leon Guerrero – The Second US Social Forum : What did we accomplish ?; title: 2.9 Sonia E Alvarez – Globalised Localisms : The Travels and Translations of the World Social Forum Process; title: 3; title: Some Critical Issues – in the WSF, in Movement; title: 3.1 America Vera-Zavala – A Space of Freedom : The World Women’s Forum; title: 3.2 Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca – ‘Skeleton Women’ at the World Social Forum : Feminist Struggles for Visibility, Voice, and Influence, 2001-5; title: 3.3 Rahul Rao – Included Out ?; title: 3.4 Taran N Khan – Trio; title: 3.5 Amanda Alexander and Mandisa Mbali – Have the Slaves left the Master’s House ?; title: 3.6 Corinna Genschel – Are Social Forums an Opportunity for Renewing Emancipative Gender Politics ?  A Feminist Account of the Local Organisation of Social Forums; title: 3.7 Laura Sullivan – Activism, Affect, and Abuse : The Emotional Contexts and Consequences of the ESF Organising Process 2004; title: 3.8 Giuseppe Caruso – Difference and Conflicts in the World Social Forum in India : Towards an ‘Open’ Cosmopolitanism ?; title: 3.9 Jai Sen – Towards Building the Future Together : An Open Letter to the Puno Cumbre; title: 3.10 Franco Barchiesi, Heinrich Bohmke, Prishani Naidoo, and Ahmed Veriava – Does Bamako Appeal ? The World Social Forum Versus the Life Strategies of the Subaltern; title: 3.11 Shannon Walsh – We Won't Pay to Discuss Our Own Poverty ! Activist Interventions into the 'Open Space' of the World Social Forum; title: 3.12 Patrick Bond – Linking Below, Across, And Against : Rethinking Global Civil Society Strategy; title: 3.13 Jeffrey S Juris – Opening Spaces at the US Social Forum; title: 3.14 Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham – At an Impasse ? Anti-capitalism and the Social Forums; title: 3.15 Walden Bello – World Social Forum at the Crossroads; title: 3.16 Chico Whitaker – Crossroads Do Not Always Close Roads; title: 3.17 Boaventura de Sousa Santos – A Left of the Future : The WSF and Beyond; title: 3.18 Ronaldo Munck – The Great Counter-Movement : Empire, Multitudes, and Social Transformation; title: 4; title: References; title: Bibliography; title: Note :; title: Because of a shortage of resources before publication, and because we are this time primarily doing soft publication rather than hard, the Glossary, Index, and List of Websites - normally a part of all books in the Challenging Empires series - will be added later, first as an Appendix to this volume and then within a new revised edition.