ABSTRACT

The World Social Forum (WSF) has become the focus for a diverse array of movements advancing alternative visions of globalisation. The numerous WSF's have helped to connect activists in an increasingly dense network of advocates for radical social change. They have mobilised hundreds of thousands of people and may be one of the most important political developments of our time. The Handbook of World Social Forum Activism brings together leading scholars of the social forum process from North America and Europe. The collection contributes to the ongoing process of reflection from the WSF experience, and is accessible to activists, students and scholars alike.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Learning from the World Social Forums

part I|73 pages

Background and Context

part II|141 pages

Campaigns and Movements in the Social Forum Process

chapter 5|20 pages

More Than a Shadow of a Difference?

Feminist Participation in the World Social Forum

chapter 7|23 pages

Building National Labor Solidarity:

Unions and Labor Activists at the 2007 United States Social Forum

chapter 8|18 pages

The World Social Forum as a Bounded Open Space:

Maintain It, Fix It, or Nix It? Evidence from Post-9/11 Global Antiwar Activism

chapter 9|20 pages

Our World Is Not for Sale!

The WSF Process and Transnational Resistance to International Trade Agreements

chapter 11|18 pages

The Road to the World Social Forum:

The Case of the Dalit Movement

part III|78 pages

Local Places and Global Spaces

chapter 12|21 pages

African Voices and Activists at the WSF in Nairobi:

The Uncertain Ways of Transnational African Activism

chapter 13|18 pages

Global Movements in Local Struggles:

Findings on the Social Forum Process in Italy

chapter 15|20 pages

In the Belly of Empire:

The U.S. Social Forum Process

part IV|94 pages

Democratic Innovations

chapter 16|15 pages

Youth Camps and the Bolivarian Revolution

A Story of Horizontalism and Blocked Diffusion

chapter 19|18 pages

Transnational Movement Innovation and Collaboration:

Analysis of World Social Forum Networks

chapter |19 pages

The Space as Actor

The Form and Content of the Social Forum Process