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 demodiversity
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 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: the 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, 2003-2006
The left after the World Social Forum
The phantasmatic relation between theory and practice
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
References
Index.
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