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This book explores how the World Social Forum (WSF) has developed
in response to the current period of profound crisis and transition
in the history of Western capitalist modernity. The WSF has been
thrown up by social forces as a laboratory of practices for other
possible worlds; it is at a leading edge of the transition, where
other possible futures are being imagined and constructed, but it
is also firmly rooted in the order that is passing. Based on ten
years of field work on three continents, this book examines social
movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to specific
movements and their praxis-based knowledges and its arguments are
grounded in sustained empirical attention to what movements are
doing and saying on the terrain of the WSF over time and from place
to place. Engaging with several strands of social and political
thought, global civil society, autonomism, and transnational
feminism, each chapter outlines a set of contestations and
contributions with relevance beyond debates about the WSF.It will
be of strong interest to students and scholars of social movement
studies; international politics; gender studies; sociology;
political theory and social work.
Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist
praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic
politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the
Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in
coalition building, campaign-organizing and 'economic and political
literacy' work in the aftermath of the signing of the Canada-US
Free Trade Agreement. The book breaks new theoretical and
methodological ground in social movement studies in drawing on a
wide range of traditions including cultural studies, urban studies,
political economy and feminism.
Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist
praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic
politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the
Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their work in
coalition building, campaign-organizing and 'economic and political
literacy' work in the aftermath of the signing of the Canada-US
Free Trade Agreement. The book breaks new theoretical and
methodological ground in social movement studies in drawing on a
wide range of traditions including cultural studies, urban studies,
political economy and feminism.
This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of
crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist
modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents,
this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays
attention to what movements are doing and saying on the terrain of
the WSF over time and from place to place, and to how they theorize
its significance. Framed by the Latin American
modernity-coloniality perspective, the book critically engages with
discourses of global civil society, autonomism, and transnational
feminism toward a reading of the WSF through the lens of 'colonial
difference'. Each chapter outlines a set of contestations and
contributions with relevance beyond debates about the WSF. It will
be of strong interest to students and scholars of social movement
studies; international politics; post-colonial studies; gender
studies; sociology; political theory and social work.
Coalition formation, broad-based campaign organizing, and activist
education are among the methods discussed in this practical text
for grassroots organizations attempting to advance their goals. The
execution of social movements on a day-to-day basis is explained
with attention to how social justice organizations struggle because
many of the groups are disparate and poorly organized. The specific
experiences of a leader of the Metro Network for Social Justice in
Toronto are analyzed in detail to provide a practical discusssion
of the key challenges facing social organizations: representation
structures, decision making, democratic governance, and power in
activist politics. The application of these issues illustrates
methods and best practices for social change in other similar
organizations.
Conditions for global solidarities and social movements have
changed radically since their high point in the 1990s United
Nations conferences. This collection considers how political
solidarities are being understood and constructed in a variety of
cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century
conditions. In studies grounded in different world regions at a
variety of scales, authors address: how the Cold War divide and its
aftermath have structured contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT
movements and in 'global' feminisms; how 'colonial difference' in
Latin America confronts feminist and social justice movements with
problems of translation across worlds; how travelling concepts
essential to constructing solidarities across distance and
difference traverse linguistic divides and attendant power
imbalances in world cities and transnational networks; how rurality
as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories
of intersectional feminism. Feminist politics of power and
difference, and attention to gendered agency, are at the centre of
this inquiry into the possibility of twenty-first century
solidarities across borders.
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