[DEBATE] : (Fwd) World Social Forum book

[Patrick Bond]

(Fine work - albeit expensive in hardback so a paperback's due next year
- by Judith and Marina; my chapter's available on .pdf to anyone
interested; pbond at mail.ngo.za ... also published recently in
Sociologists Without Borders)


The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary

Edited by Judith Blau, University of North Carolina and Marina Karides,
Florida Atlantic University

July 2008
ISBN 978 90 04 16769 8
Hardback (viii, 248 pp.)
List price EUR 75.- / US$ 99.-

The WSF/USSF is an expression of the people's struggles to advance
alternatives to the world-as-we-know-it. Since its first convening in
2001 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, it has captured the imagination of all who
have come within its orbit and caught up by its vast and growing
networks. It provides a large space for groups to mobilize, voice their
oppression, exchange ideas, and express their desire for hope and
another world. Central in the founding principles of the World Social
Forum are: the advance of peoples' rights (including women's rights, the
rights of indigenous peoples, the rights of minorities, the rights of
peasant farmers, and, generally, the rights and dignity of all peoples
now oppressed), participatory democracy, social and cultural pluralism,
and the end of market tyranny. This volume captures the full range of
topics dealing with the WSF/USSF. It is a fresh treatment of materials
for the "insider" and provides ample background for someone who would
like to attend.

Preface: Immanuel Wallerstein
Introduction: Marina Karides and Judith Blau

Part I. Social Forum Process: The USSF and Its Relation to the WSF
1. Marina Karides and Thomas Ponniah, In Defense of World Social Forum VII
2. Michael Guerrero, The US Social Forum: Building From the Bottom Up
3. Jackie Smith, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Christopher Hausmann, New
Politics Emerging at the US Social Forum
4. Walda Katz-Fishman and Jerome Scott, Another United States is
Happening: Building Today?s Movement from the Bottom-up: The United
States Social Forum and Beyond
5. Michal Osterweil, A Different (Kind of)Politics is Possible: Conflict
and Problem(s) at the USSF

Part II. Debates and Social Thought: Highlighting the World Social Forum
6. Janet Conway, Reading Nairobi: Place, Space, and Difference at the
2007 World Social Forum
7. Peter Waterman, Is the World Social Forum the Privileged Space for
Reinventing Labour as a Global Social Movement?
8. Stellan Vinthagen, Is the World Social Forum a Democratic Global
Civil Society?
9. Chico Whitaker, Social Forums ? Challenges and New Perspectives

Part III. Bridging Activism and Academics
10. Patrick Bond, Reformist Reforms, Non-Reformist Reforms and Global
Justice: Activist, NGO and Intellectual Challenges in the World Social Forum
11. Lyndi Hewitt, Feminists and the Forum: Is It Worth the Effort?
12. Mark Frezzo, Sociology, Human Rights, and the World Social Forum
13. Steven Sherman, Another Structure of Knowledge is Possible: The
Social Forum Process and Academia
14. Eunice Sahle, World Social Forum: Re-imaging Development and the
Global South Beyond the Neo-colonial Gaze

Judith Blau, PhD (1972) in Sociology, Northwestern University, is
Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and president of the US chapter of Sociologists without Borders.
She has published extensively in the area of human rights and is
co-author of Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision, Justice in the
United States, Freedoms and Solidarities, and Two Logics: Globalization
vs. Human Rights. She is journal editor of Societies Without Borders.

Marina Karides, PhD (2001) in Sociology, University of Georgia, is
Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. She has
published multiple works on autonomous employment strategies, gender
inequalities, and economic development ideologies. She is one of eleven
co-authors of Global Democracies and the World Social Forums. She serves
as Sociologists without Borders' representative on the National Planning
Committee of the USSF.



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The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary

Edited by Judith Blau, University of North Carolina and Marina Karides,
Florida Atlantic University