Description
Seeking to understand the political significance of the World Social Forum, this work provides a detailed analysis of its leading participants and how they drive the politicisation process. It explores the WSFs significance in transmitting ideas and its potential for becoming a political force.
Chapter
Introduction: forty years of solitude and the novelty of the WSF
1 | The WSF as critical utopia
2 | The WSF as epistemology of the South
The World Social Forum and the sociology of absences
The World Social Forum and the sociology of emergences
3 | The WSF as an insurgent cosmopolitan politics
A very broad conception of power and oppression
The equivalence between the principles of equality and recognition of difference
Rebellion and non-conformity
The WSF aims at a new internationalism
Transversal political terrains of resistance and alternative: an ongoing process
The struggle for radical democracy must be a struggle fordemo-diversity
Promoting and strengthening counter-hegemonic forms of high-intensity democracy
No democracy without conditions of democracy
No global social justice without global cognitive justice
The many names for another possible world
4 | Organizing fragmented counter-hegemonic energies
Transparency and hierarchies in participation
The evaluation of the 2003 WSF
The Mumbai demonstration and the 2005 WSF
5 | Representing this world as it fights for another possible world
Who represents the WSF? Composition and functionality of the International Council
6 | Making and unmaking cleavages: strategy and political action
Socialism or social emancipation
The state as enemy or potential ally
National or global struggles
Direct or institutional action
Equality or respect for difference
The WSF as a space or as a movement
7 | The future of the WSF: self-democracy and the work of translation
8 | The WSF and self-learning: the Popular University of the Social Movements
A proposal for collective transformative self-learning
9 | The left after the WSF
The phantasmal relation between theory and practice
The twenty-first-century left: depolarized pluralities
Annexe I: Composition of the International Council of the WSF (2005)
Annexe III: Manifesto of Porto Alegre
Another world is possible: twelve proposals
Annexe IV: Financial support to the World Social Forums
The Rise of the Global Left
：The World Social Forum and Beyond
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