The World and US Social Forums a Better World Is Possible and Necessary 1st Edition by Judith Blau, Marina Karides ISBN 978-9047442875 9047442875

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ISBN 10:   9047442875

ISBN 13: 978-9047442875

Author: Judith Blau, Marina Karides

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
2. In Defense of World Social Forum VII
3. The US Social Forum: Building from the Bottom Up
4. New Politics Emerging at the US Social Forum
5. Another United States Is Happening: Building Today’s Movement from the Bottom Up – The United States Social Forum and Beyond
6. A Different (Kind of) Politics Is Possible: Conflict and Problem(s) at the USSF
7. Reading Nairobi: Place, Space, and Difference at the 2007 World Social Forum
8. Is the World Social Forum the Privileged Space for Reinventing Labor as a Global Social Movement?
9. Is the World Social Forum a Democratic Global Civil Society?
10. Social Forums – Challenges and New Perspectives
11. Reformist Reforms, Non-Reformist Reforms and Global Justice: Activist, NGO and Intellectual Challenges in the World Social Forum
12. Feminists and the Forum: Is It Worth the Effort?
13. Sociology, Human Rights, and the World Social Forum
14. Another Structure of Knowledge Is Possible: The Social Forum Process and Academia
15. World Social Forum: Re-Imagining Development and the Global South Beyond the Neo-Colonial Gaze
16. Notes on Contributors
17. Index

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