Handbook on world social forum activism

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction learning from the World Social Forums / Scott Byrd, Ellen Reese, Jackie Smith and Elizabeth Smythe -- Background and context -- Social fora as public stage and infrastructure of global justice movements / Dieter Rucht -- (In)fertile ground? : social forum activism in its regional and local dimensions / Peter (Jay) Smith and Elizabeth Smythe -- The political and its absence in the World Social Forum : implications for democracy in the forum and in the world / Teivo Teivainen -- Surveys of world social forum participants show influence of place and base in the global public sphere / Ellen Reese, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Kadambari Anantram, Gary Coyne, Matheu Kaneshiro, Ashley N. Koda, Roy Kwon, and Preeta Saxena -- Campaigns and movements in the social forum process -- More than a shadow of a difference? : feminist participation in the World Social Forum / Lyndi Hewitt and Marina Karides -- Indigenous peoples and social forums / Marc Becker and Ashley N. Koda -- Building national labor solidarity : unions and labor activists at the 2007 U.S. social forum / Ellen Reese, Kadambari Anantram, Linda J. Kim, Roy Kwon, and Preeta Saxena -- The World Social Forum as a bounded open space : maintain it, fix it, or nix it? : evidence from post-9/11 global antiwar activism / Ruth Reitan -- Our world is not for sale! : the WSF process and transnational resistance to international trade agreements / Elizabeth Smythe -- Global environmentalists and their movements at the World Social Forums / Matheu Kaneshiro, Kirk S. Lawrence, and Christopher Chase-Dunn -- The road to the World Social Forum : the case of the Dalit movement / Peter (Jay) Smith -- Local places & global spaces -- African voices and activists at the WSF in Nairobi : the uncertain ways of transnational African activism / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Johanna Sim?ant -- Global movements in local struggles : findings on the social forum process in Italy / Donatella della Porta and Lorenzo Mosca -- Diverging visions of another world in the making of the Quebec social forum? / Pascale Dufour and Janet Conway -- In the belly of empire : the U.S. social forum process / Jeffrey S. Juris and Jackie Smith with the USSF Research Collective -- Democratic innovations -- Youth camps and the Bolivarian revolution : a story of horizontalism and blocked diffusion / Lesley J. Wood -- Deliberative discussion and languages in the world social forums / Nicole Doerr -- Democratic innovation in the U.S. and european social forums / Jackie Smith and Nicole Doerr -- Transnational movement innovation and collaboration : analysis of World Social Forum networks / Scott Byrd and Lorien Jasny -- Conclusion the space as actor : the form and content of the social forum process / Thomas Ponniah.