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First answers to what the World Social Forum is all about are given here: Frequently Asked Questions about the World Social Forum 2007.

It should be kept in mind that there are also regional, national, local and other social forums. All in all, the social forum is the combination of numerous local, national, regional developments, which together form a global social forum process.



Readings about the World Social Forum

This is a commented list of readings on the WSF as of December 2006, mainly in English, and prepared especially for librarians who would consider involving themselves in the process.


" [...] the World Social Forum process is NOT the latest attempt to create a monolithic "world revolutionary vanguard movement" nor is it a reincarnation of an international "united front" seeking to overthrow, one by one, governments around the world. Such a notion would be a complete negation of the very essence and concept of the World Social Forum as outlined in its Charter of Principles. [...]
Rather, the World Social Forum is, to use a Kiswahili word, a global Jukwaa, in other words, an international PLATFORM, to quote from the Porto Alegre Charter "an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action." (Quoted from http://wsf2007.org/)


In English

Nisula, Laura and Sehm Patomäki, Katarina (Eds.): We, the Peoples of the World Social Forum...

URL: http://www.nigd.org/libraries/bamako-nairobi/tot-workshop/module2/WeThePeoplesOfTheWSF.pdf

Larmer, Miles: "whose Forum, which Africa?"

Glasius, Marlies: "Deliberation or Struggle? Civil Society Traditions Behind the Social Forums"

Reyes, Oscar: "World and European Social Forums: A Bibliography"


Böök, Mikael: "Librarians and World Social Forum, Unite!"

Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, Peter Waterman (Eds.): World Social Forum Challenging Empires

George, Susan: Another world is possible if...


In French

Cardon, Dominique et Haeringer, Nicolas: "Formes politiques et coopération digitale. Les usages d’Internet par les Forums sociaux"

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