Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Scott Byrd

Handbook on World Social Forum Activism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Documents the rise of the World Social Forums. Succinct chapters include an analysis of the social forum decision making process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781594519468
• ISBN-10: 1594519463
• Artikelnr.: 32949033

Autorenporträt

Scott Byrd, Jackie Smith, Ellen Reese, Elizabeth Smythe

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I: Background and Context
1: Social Forums as Public Stage and Infrastructure of Global Justice Movements
2: (In)Fertile Ground?
3: The Political and its Absence in the World Social Forum:
4: Surveys of World Social Forum Participants Show Influence of Place and Base in the Global Public Sphere
II: Campaigns and Movements in the Social Forum Process
5: More Than a Shadow of a Difference?
6: Indigenous Peoples and Social Forums
7: Building National Labor Solidarity:
8: The World Social Forum as a Bounded Open Space:
9: Our World Is Not for Sale!
10: Global Environmentalists and Their Movements at the World Social Forums
11: The Road to the World Social Forum:
III: Local Places and Global Spaces
12: African Voices and Activists at the WSF in Nairobi:
13: Global Movements in Local Struggles:
14: Diverging Visions of Another World in the Making of the Quebec Social Forum
15: In the Belly of Empire:
IV: Democratic Innovations
16: Youth Camps and the Bolivarian Revolution
17: Deliberative Discussion and Languages in the World Social Forum Process
18: Democratic Innovation in the U.S. and European Social Forums
19: Transnational Movement Innovation and Collaboration:
The Space as Actor