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(In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in its Regional and Local Dimension

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title (In)Fertile Ground? Social Forum Activism in its Regional and Local Dimension
 
Creator Smith, Peter J.
Smythe, Elizabeth
 
Description Since its inception in 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) has grown in numbers and drawn activists from all areas of the globe. It has also spawned a myriad of social forums around the world. But the pattern of participation within the WSF global event or within other forums has not been evenly spread in geographic or spatial terms. This chapter examines how and why social forum activism emerged in some places and not others. We map the social forum from the first WSF in 2001 through its proliferation and fragmentation over time as it has taken root at various levelscontinental, national, regional and local. Then we provide comparative case studies of sub-global forums drawn from North and South America, Europe and Africa. We also compare different manifestations of social forumism along a number of dimensions. Drawing on comparative politics and its emphasis on the specifics of place and the role of context we discuss these patterns and the factors that might account for why these forms of resistance find barren or fertile ground around the world.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2010-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/459
10.5195/jwsr.2010.459
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 16, Issue 1, 2010; 6-28
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/459/471
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Peter J. Smith, Elizabeth Smythe
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