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Title

The rise of the global left : the World Social Forum and beyond / Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Author

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa.

Publication

London ; New York : Zed Books, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

xii, 222 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• World Social Forum
• Democracy
• Social justice
• Equality

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-215) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction : forty years of solitude and the novelty of the World Social Forum -- The World Social Forum as critical utopia -- The World Social Forum as epistemology of the south --The World Social Forum and the sociology of absences -- The World Social Forum and the sociology of emergences -- The World Social Forum as an insurgent cosmopolitan politics -- The struggles for global social justice must be based on a very broad conception of power and oppression -- Counter-hegemonic globalization is built upon the equivalence between the principles of equality and recognition of difference -- Rebellion and non-conformity must be privileged to the detriment of the old strategic options (reform or revolution) -- The WSF aims at a new internationalism -- The WSF process progresses as transversal political terrains of resistance and alternative are identified as an ongoing process -- The struggle for radical democracy must be a struggle for demo-diversity -- Transcultural criteria must be developed to identify different forms of democracy and to establish hierarchies among them according to the collective quality of life they provide -- The WSF process must be conceived as promoting and strengthening counter-hegemonic forms of high-intensity democracy that are already emerging -- There is no democracy without conditions of democracy -- There is no global social justice without global cognitive justice -- The many names of another possible world--social emancipation, socialism, dignity, etc.--are in the end the name of democracy without end -- Organizing fragmented counter-hegemonic energies -- Internal democracy: relations between the organizing committee and the international council -- Transparency and hierarchies in participation -- Parties and movements -- Size and continuity -- The new organizational challenges: the evaluation of the 2003 WSF -- The new organizational models: the Mumbai demonstration and the 2005 WSF -- The 2006 polycentric WSF -- Representing this world as it fights for another possible world -- Whom does the WSF represent? -- Who represents the WSF? Composition and functionality of the international council -- Making and unmaking cleavages: strategy and political action -- Reform or revolution -- Socialism or social emancipation -- The state as enemy or potential ally -- National or global struggles -- Direct or institutional action -- The principle of equality or the principle of respect for difference -- The WSF as a space or as a movement -- The future of the World Social Forum: self-democracy and the work of translation -- Self-democracy -- The work of translation -- The World Social Forum and self-learning: the popular university of the social movements -- A proposal for collective transformative self-learning: the popular university of the social movements -- The PUSM, 2003-06 -- The left after the World Social Forum -- The phantasmal relation between theory and practice -- The twenty-first century left: depolarized pluralities -- Conclusion -- Annexes -- Annex I - Composition of the International Council of the WSF (2005) -- Annex II - Comparison between the charter of principles, the WSF India policy Statement, and the charter of principles and values of the African Social Forum -- Annex III - Manifesto of Porto Alegre -- Annex IV- Organizations and institutions that have provided financial support to the World Social Forums.

ISBN

• 1842778005 (alk. paper)
• 1842778013 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781842778005 (alk. paper)
• 9781842778012 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006032573
• 9781842778012
• 9781842778005

OCLC

• OCM70402645
• SCSB-5307345

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Columbia University Libraries