Challenging Authoritarian Capitalism
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Challenging Authoritarian Capitalism

The Transformative Power of the World Social Forum

  1. 110 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Challenging Authoritarian Capitalism

The Transformative Power of the World Social Forum

About this book

The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchanging experiences and interlinking effective action. It has brought together people and social movements opposed to neoliberalism, imperialism and the domination of the world by capital. In this book, leading intellectual-activists from four continents take stock of the WSF-experience until the early 2020s and suggest new paths for collaboration between all who build other possible worlds.

Since the first meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001, at least hundreds of thousands of activists have contributed to WSF activities locally, regionally, and globally. In the early years of the WSF, high hopes were often associated with the pink wave in Latin America, the Arab Spring, and similar events elsewhere. Many foresaw the coming of a systemic crisis and some activist-intellectuals even predicted with some accuracy the outbreak of the financial crisis. But not many predicted the strengthening of authoritarian capitalism that followed. The focus of this edited volume is on the multiple practices of struggle, organization, and conceptual innovation expressed in the main WSF slogan since 2001: "Another world is possible."

Most chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Globalizations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Citation Information
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction: social movements and forums in times of authoritarian capitalism
  10. 1 World Social Forum – possible perspectives
  11. 2 Complexity, technology and the future of transformative politics
  12. 3 Conservative twist and challenges for Peru and Latin America: civilizing crossroads in a context of epochal change (reflections in process)
  13. 4 Global movement dilemmas: transnational representation and impact in the World Social Forum
  14. 5 Alternative paths of transformation
  15. 6 ‘Systemic thinking’, ‘regenerative culture’, and new forms of prefigurative politics: challenges for the global left
  16. 7 Transnational Feminisms Building Anti-Globalization Solidarities
  17. 8 The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs
  18. 9 Earth Vikalp Sangam: proposal for a Global Tapestry of Alternatives
  19. 10 The World Social Forum: the paradoxical quest for strength in plurality
  20. 11 Reflecting the Nepali Social Forum processes and 2018 event
  21. Afterword: the online future of transnational activism: pandemic digitalization of the World Social Forum
  22. Index