This
comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the
wide-ranging discussions, debates and arguments which
have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF)
one of the more prominent platforms of alternative
ideas and practices in the present world. Building on
the First Edition (published in India by the Viveka
Foundation, New Delhi in 2004), this Second Edition
has been revised and updated to include coverage of
those Social Forums that took place as recent as the
summer of 2007.
Here is what
some critics had to say about the First Edition:
"If
you want to know how the World Social Forum was
formed and what the opinion of some of the main
actors in it is on issues such as globalization,
transnational feminism, justice and peace among
others, this is the book to read."
--VirtualActivism.org
"A
useful array of writings on the entire WSF
process--the global context in which it emerged,
the manner in which different movements and
ideologies have interacted and shaped this
process and the manner in which it has itself
grown in the past years." --Aniket Alam, The
Hindu
"An
excellent effort at combining both information
and critical reflection on the World Social Forum
phenomenon." --Massimo De Angelis
"World
Social Forum: Challenging Empires
is a stupendous collection of essays, documents
and statements, a critical self-consideration of
the WSF process by a variety of people."
--Milan Rai, The New
Standard
"A
stellar collection of essays. Indispensable
reading." --Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand
Braudel Center
Contributors
include: Contributors include:
Michael Albert, Sonia E. Alvarez, Samir Amin, Pierre
Beaudet, Walden F Bello, Jeremy Brecher, Tim
Costello, and Brendan Smith, Johanna Brenner, Dorval
Brunelle, Sally Burch and Irene León, Boaventura de
Sousa Santos, Nawal El Saadawi, Arturo Escobar,
Linden Farrer, David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic,
Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, and Cindy
Wiesner, P.J. James, Michael Lööwy, Muto Ichiyo,
Michal Osterweil, Judy Rebick, Teivo Teivainen, Achin
Vanaik, Gina Vargas, and Chico Whitaker, as well as
Jai Sen and Peter Waterman.
Table of Contents
JAI SEN, an architect by
training and a housing-rights activist since the
1970s, is an independent researcher living in New
Delhi who has contributed to a number of works
documenting the World Social Forum. He is now
associated with CACIM (India Institute for Critical
Action--Centre in Movement; www.cacim.net) in New
Delhi, which among other things maintains
OpenSpaceForum, one of the more comprehensive sites
for information on the WSF (www.openspaceforum.net)
and WSFDiscuss, an open and unmoderated forum on the
World Social Forum and on related social and
political movements and issues.
PETER
WATERMAN worked for the Institute of Social Studies,
The Hague, for nearly thirty years. He has
specialized in labor and social movements and has
been active in international organizations all his
life. He is the author of Globalisation, Social
Movements, and the New Internationalisms and of
Recovering Internationalism, Creating the New Global
Solidarity : Labour, Social Movements and
Emancipation in the 21st Century (First Edition on
the Choike website:
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6439.html).
400 pages,
7x10, resources, bibliography, index
Paperback
$28.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-308-3
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-308-1
Hardcover
$57.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-309-0
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-309-X
Cultural Studies /
Political Science & Government
September
2008
