World Social Forum

by Sen, Jai; Waterman, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781551643090
• ISBN10: 155164309X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-30
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd

Summary

Experimenting with politics that can cope with uncertainty.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on the Editors	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
Introduction: Critically Engaging with the World Social Forum	p. xv
Antecedents: Critical Perspectives
For Struggles, Global and National	p. 3
Coming: A Rerun of the 1930s?	p. 11
The Road From Genoa	p. 15
Towards a New International?	p. 19
Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice	p. 26
Towards Another Anarchism	p. 38
Empire, Global Power Centres, and People's Alliances	p. 48
The Global Justice and Solidarity Movement and the World Social Forum	p. 55
World Social Forum Documents
World Social Forum Charter of Principles: WSF International Council, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001	p. 69
WSF IC-Nature, Responsibilities, Composition, and Functioning: WSF Brazilian Organising Committee, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2001	p. 72
Note of Information, Fourth Day Activities at WSF Nairobi: WSF Organising Committee, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, 2007	p. 75
Call for Day of Action/Mobilisation January 26th 2008: WSF International Council, Berlin, Germany, 2007	p. 77
Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum
The World Social Forum As Open Space	p. 81
The World Social Forum: Arena or Actor?	p. 94
Another World Is Necessary	p. 104
The Secret of Fire	p. 109
Is It Possible to Put a Human Face on Globalisation and War?	p. 126
World Forum Movement: Abandon or Contaminate	p. 134
De-Centering the Forum: Is Another Critique of the Forum Possible?	p. 145
Another (Also Feminist) World Is Possible	p. 154
How Open? the Forum As Logo, the Forum As Religion	p. 162
The World Social Forum 3 and Tensions In the Construction of Global Alternative Thinking	p. 185
The World Social Forum: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation	p. 191
World Social Forum's 'Many Alternatives' to Globalisation	p. 205
The World Social Forum, Beyond Critique and Deconstruction	p. 211
Movement And Other Independent Documents
Call of Social Movements: Social Movements Assembly, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2002	p. 228
Mumbai Declaration 2004: Mumbai Resistance, Mumbai, India, January 2004	p. 233
Porto Alegre Manifesto: Group of Nineteen, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2005	p. 238
Globalising The Forum: The Forum In The World
Globalising the WSF: Ironies, Contrasts, Challenges	p. 245
Citizen Mobilization In the Americas and the Birth of the WSF	p. 258
The World Social Forum In Africa	p. 276
The World Social Forum: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives	p. 292
Another U.S. Is Happening!	p. 305
The Road to Atlanta	p. 315
Asterix On the St. Lawrence	p. 332
Movement And Other Independent Documents
The Bamako Appeal: World Forum for Alternatives, Third World Forum, Forum for Another Mali, ENDA, and others, WSF Bamako, Mali, January 2006	p. 343
Call of Social Movements: Social Movements Assembly, WSF Caracas, Venezuela, January 2006	p. 349
Declaration of Social Movements: Social Movements Assembly, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, January 2007	p. 359
Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds
WSF: Where to Now?	p. 363
The Twilight of Vanguardism	p. 370
The World Social Forum and the Future	p. 378
Women's Global Charter for Humanity	p. 387
Other Worlds Are (Already) Possible	p. 393
Glossary	p. 405
References	p. 409
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