In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India in January 2004, civil activists and students organized a major series of seminars in Delhi University to discuss the forum and its politics. The ‘Open Space’ seminar series, as it came to be called, picked up on the idea of the Forum as a relatively free space, where all kinds of ideas could meet and be discussed. This book, the first in a series that explore the new ideas generated by the ...
This committed and critical collection of writings by women and men spanning three generations from the South and the North, presents the first in-one-place analysis of the World Social Forum. From political ideologies, social movements and processes of the old to present-day-reality, the views expressed in this volume converge on the significance of the World Social Forum. On the eve of the fourth World Social Forum, The Word Social Forum: Challenging Empires ...