Edges of global justice : the World Social Forum and its "others" / Janet M. Conway.
This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to what movements are doing and sayin...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Rethinking globalizations ;
36. |
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| Summary: | This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity. Based on ten years of fieldwork on three continents, this book treats social movements as knowledge producers. It pays attention to what movements are doing and saying on the terrain of the WSF over time and from place to place, and to how they theorize its significance. Framed by the Latin American modernity-coloniality perspective, the book critically engages with discourses of global civilsociety, autonomism, and transnational feminism toward a reading of the WSF through the lens of 'colonial difference'. Each chapter outlines a set of contestations and contributions with relevance beyond debates about the WSF. It will be of strong interest to students and scholars of social movement studies; international politics; post-colonial studies; gender studies; sociology; political theory and social work. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203116678 0203116674 9781136300103 1136300104 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |