Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1Neoliberalism and its discontents
- 2Networks, global civil society and global justice networks
- 3Global justice networks: Operational logics and strategies
- 4Global justice networks: Geographical dynamics and convergence spaces
- 5People’s Global Action (Asia): Peasant solidarity as horizontal networking?
- 6International Federation for Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers: Labour internationalism as vertical networking?
- 7Social Forums as convergence spaces
- 8Geographies of transnational solidarity
- References
- Index
7 - Social Forums as convergence spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2026
Book contents
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1Neoliberalism and its discontents
- 2Networks, global civil society and global justice networks
- 3Global justice networks: Operational logics and strategies
- 4Global justice networks: Geographical dynamics and convergence spaces
- 5People’s Global Action (Asia): Peasant solidarity as horizontal networking?
- 6International Federation for Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers: Labour internationalism as vertical networking?
- 7Social Forums as convergence spaces
- 8Geographies of transnational solidarity
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents an analysis and interpretation of the World Social Forum (WSF) process. By its nature, its subject matter is broader and more discursive than the more specific case studies, but it also deals with the fundamental issues of solidarity, democracy, and grassroots engagement. More than any other development, the WSF process has come to embody the new democratic and participatory ideals of the broader international resistance against neoliberalism with its aspiration to provide an open and enabling space for debate about alternatives to neoliberalism.
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- Global justice networksGeographies of transnational solidarity, pp. 173 - 195Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2026
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