The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary
- Editors Judith Blau; Marina Karides
- Subjects: Social Sciences
- Keywords: movements; global; third; left; world; anti-globalism; neoliberalism; local; alter-globalism; transformation; counter-hegemonic; global-local
- Publication Year : 2008
- DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004167698.i-248
- E - ISBN : 9789047442875
- Imprint: Brill
- Collections: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2008
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This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the World Social Forum, its relation to the US Social Forum, current debates and perspectives, and the relations involving principle actors, namely NGOS, activists, and academics.
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Preliminary Material
- pp. i–viii
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Introduction
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In defense of world social forum VII
- pp. 5–20 (16)
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The US social forum: Building from the bottom up
- pp. 21–40 (20)
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New politics emerging at the US social forum
- pp. 41–56 (16)
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Another United States is happening: Building today’s movement from the bottom up - The United States social forum and beyond
- pp. 57–70 (14)
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A different (kind of ) politics is possible: Conflict and problem(s)
at the ussf
- pp. 71–90 (20)
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Reading Nairobi: Place, space, and difference at the 2007 World Social Forum
- pp. 91–116 (26)
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Is the world social forum the privileged space for reinventing labor as a global social movement?
- pp. 117–130 (14)
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Is the world Social Forum a democratic global civil society?
- pp. 131–148 (18)
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Social forums – Challenges and new perspectives
- pp. 149–154 (6)
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Reformist reforms, non-reformist reforms and global justice: Activist,
Ngo and intellectual challenges in the World Social Forum
- pp. 155–172 (18)
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Feminists and the forum: Is it worth the effort?
- pp. 173–190 (18)
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Sociology, human rights, and the World Social Forum
- pp. 191–204 (14)
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Another structure of knowledge is possible: The social forum process and Academia
- pp. 205–222 (18)
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World Social Forum: Re-imaging development and the Global South beyond the Neo-Colonial Gaze
- pp. 223–238 (16)
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Notes on contributors
- pp. 239–244 (6)
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