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The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in Turkey, and many others. It draws on the rich reflection that took place following the huge wave of creative direct actions that had preceded it, from the 1990s through to the early 2000s, including the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Battle of Seattle in the United States, and the accompanying formations such as Peoples' Global Action and the World Social Forum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists, this book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change--be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include Taiaiake Alfred, Tariq Ali, Daniel Bensaid, Hee-Yeon Cho, Ashok Choudhary, Lee Cormie, Jeff Corntassel, Laurence Cox, Guillermo Delgado-P, Andre Drainville, David Featherstone, Christopher Gunderson, Emilie Hayes, Francois Houtart, Fouad Kalouche, Alex Khasnabish, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Roma Malik, David McNally, Roel Meijer, Eric Mielants, Peter North, Shailja Patel, Emir Sader, Andrea Smith, Anand Teltumbde, James Toth, Virginia Vargas, and Peter Waterman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49608954446097,"sku":"GOR008824415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49783541661969,"sku":"GOR013782989","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752316465425,"sku":"NIN9781629632407","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1629632406.jpg?v=1751422640"},{"product_id":"movements-of-movements-book-jai-sen-9781629633800","title":"The Movements of Movements","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Our Dance, the second of two volumes, offers a wide range of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, as well as from Europe and North America that address the question, \"What do we need to do in order to bring about justice and peace?\" The Movements of Movements aims to make the bewildering range of contemporary movements more meaningful to the observer and also to be a space where global movements speak to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change--be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include Kolya Abramsky, Ezequiel Adamovsky, Ousseina Alidou, Samir Amin, Chris Carlsson, John Brown Childs, Lee Cormie, Anila Daulatzai, Massimo De Angelis, The Free Association, David Graeber, Josephine Ho, John Holloway, François Houtart, Jeffrey Juris, Michael Löwy, Tomás Mac Sheoin, Matt Meyer, Muto Ichiyo, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil, Shailja Patel, Geoffrey Pleyers, Stephanie Ross, and Nicola Yeates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733786206481,"sku":"NGR9781629633800","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50594954608913,"sku":"CIN1629633801G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52753085235473,"sku":"NIN9781629633800","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1629633801.jpg?v=1750896394"},{"product_id":"world-social-forum-challenging-empires-book-jai-sen-9781551643083","title":"World Social Forum  Challenging Empires","description":"This comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging discussions, debates and arguments which have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of alternative ideas and practices in the present world. Building on the First Edition (published in India by the Viveka Foundation, New Delhi in 2004), this Second Edition has been revised and updated to include coverage of those Social Forums that took place as recent as the summer of 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is what some critics had to say about the First Edition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you want to know how the World Social Forum was formed and what the opinion of some of the main actors in it is on issues such as globalization, transnational feminism, justice and peace among others, this is the book to read. - VirtualActivism.org\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA useful array of writings on the entire WSF process--the global context in which it emerged, the manner in which different movements and ideologies have interacted and shaped this process and the manner in which it has itself grown in the past years. - Aniket Alam, The Hindu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent effort at combining both information and critical reflection on the World Social Forum phenomenon. - Massimo De Angelis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld Social Forum: Challenging Empires is a stupendous collection of essays, documents and statements, a critical self-consideration of the WSF process by a variety of people. - Milan Rai, The New Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading. - Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable Of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Editors\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Critically Engaging with the World Social Forum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 1 Antecedents: Critical Perspectives\u003cbr\u003e- For Struggles, Global and National - Samir Amin, interviewed by V. Sridhar\u003cbr\u003e- Coming: A Rerun of the 1930s - Walden Bello\u003cbr\u003e- The Road From Genoa - Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, Brendan Smith\u003cbr\u003e- Towards a New International? - Michael L wy\u003cbr\u003e- Transnational Feminism and the Struggle for Global Justice - Johanna Brenner\u003cbr\u003e- Towards Another Anarchism - Andrej Grubacic\u003cbr\u003e- Empire, Global Power Centres, and People's Alliances - Muto Ichiyo\u003cbr\u003e- The Global Justice and Solidarity Movement and the World Social Forum - Peter Waterman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld Social Forum Documents\u003cbr\u003e- World Social Forum Charter of Principles - WSF International Council, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2001\u003cbr\u003e- WSF IC--Nature, Responsibilities, Composition, and Functioning - WSF Brazilian Organising Committee, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2001\u003cbr\u003e- Note of Information, Fourth Day Activities at WSF Nairobi - WSF Organising Committee, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, 2007\u003cbr\u003e- Call for Day of Action\/Mobilisation January 26th 2008 - WSF International Council, Berlin, Germany, 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 2 Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum As Open Space - Chico Whitaker\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum: Arena or Actor? - Teivo Teivainen\u003cbr\u003e- Another World Is Necessary - Nawal El Saadawi\u003cbr\u003e- The Secret of Fire - Peter Waterman\u003cbr\u003e- Is It Possible to Put a Human Face on Globalisation and War? - ILC\u003cbr\u003e- World Forum Movement: Abandon or Contaminate - Linden Farre\u003cbr\u003e- De-Centering the Forum: Is Another Critique of the Forum Possible? - Michal Osterweil\u003cbr\u003e- Another (Also Feminist) World Is Possible - Sonia E. Alvarez, with Nalu Faria and Miriam Nobre\u003cbr\u003e- How Open? the Forum As Logo, the Forum As Religion - JaiSen\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum 3 and Tensions In the Construction of Global Alternative Thinking - Gina Vargas\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Globalisation - Boaventura de Sousa Santos\u003cbr\u003e- World Social Forum's 'Many Alternatives' to Globalisation - P.J. James\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum, Beyond Critique and Deconstruction - Emma Dowling, interviewed by Rebecca Shah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMovement And Other Independent Documents\u003cbr\u003e- Call of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2002\u003cbr\u003e- Mumbai Declaration 2004 - Mumbai Resistance, Mumbai, India, January 2004\u003cbr\u003e- Porto Alegre Manifesto - Group of Nineteen, WSF Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 3 Globalising The Forum: The Forum In The World\u003cbr\u003e- Globalising the WSF: Ironies, Contrasts, Challenges - Achin Vanaik\u003cbr\u003e- Citizen Mobilization In the Americas and the Birth of the WSF - Dorval Brunelle\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum In Africa - Jean Nanga\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives - Irene Le n and Sally Burch\u003cbr\u003e- Another U.S. Is Happening Judy Rebick\u003cbr\u003e- The Road to Atlanta - Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, Cindy Wiesner\u003cbr\u003e- Asterix On the St. Lawrence - Pierre Beaudet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMovement And Other Independent Documents\u003cbr\u003e- The Bamako Appeal - World Forum for Alternatives, Third World Forum, Forum for Another Mali, ENDA, and others, WSF Bamako, Mali, January 2006\u003cbr\u003e- Call of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Caracas, Venezuela, January 2006\u003cbr\u003e- Declaration of Social Movements - Social Movements Assembly, WSF Nairobi, Kenya, January 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 4 Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds\u003cbr\u003e- WSF: Where to Now? - Michael Albert\u003cbr\u003e- The Twilight of Vanguardism - David Graeber\u003cbr\u003e- The World Social Forum and the Future - Boaventura de Sousa Santos\u003cbr\u003e- Women's Global Charter for Humanity - World March of Women\u003cbr\u003e- Other Worlds Are (Already) Possible - Arturo Escobar\u003cbr\u003e- Glossary\u003cbr\u003e- References\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJai Sen, an architect and a housing-rights activist, is an independent researcher living in New Delhi. 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