Faith Groups and Justice: A Source of Solidarity or Division in the Global Justice Movement? The World Social Forum and Occupy Wall Street as Case Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
The World

The Contours of Color at the World Social Forum: Reflections on Racialized Politics, Representation, and the Global Justice Movement

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Álvarez ◽  
Erika Gutierrez ◽  
Linda Kim ◽  
Christine Petit ◽  
Ellen Reese
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Global Justice Movement ◽  
The World

SWS 2015 Feminist Lecture

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 869-889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manisha Desai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Justice Movements

The World Social Forum (WSF)—a global gathering of social movements and a process of global change—has come to signify the global justice movements. Since its inception in 2001 in Brazil it has traveled across the Global South, with the 2016 WSF in Montreal. As the WSF has traveled across the world, it has reflected the particular geographies and histories of movement politics in each place. Yet everywhere it has demonstrated what I have called the gendered geographies of struggle. By gendered geographies I mean the epistemic, spatial, and praxis divisions along gender lines evident in the marginalizing of feminist insights about the global political economy and global justice; low representation of women activists in public plenaries and private decision-making structures; and outsourcing of gender issues to women’s activists and movements. Without addressing these gendered geographies, I argue, there can be no global justice.

scholarly journals Transversality in Diversity: Experiencing Networks of Confusion and Convergence in the World Social Forum

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Hamed Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Uncertainties

Drawing on the World Social Forum as an exemplary case study, this article shows how an emerging mode of cosmopolitanist vision (‘transversalism’) can be explained in terms of activists’ experiences of both complexity and contradiction in their networks. The paper questions the idea that the transnationalization of networks of solidarity and interconnection can uncomplicatedly encourage the growth of cosmopolitanism among global justice activists. Activists’ experiences of dissonances between their ideals, the complexity of power relations and the structural uncertainties in their global justice networks can provide them with a base for self-reflexive ideation and deliberation, and thereby encourage agendas for accommodating differences. Underpinning the accommodating measures which arise for dealing with such a cognitive-practical dissonance is a new mode of cosmopolitanism, coined here as ‘transversalism’. The article proposes a new conceptual framework and an analytical model to investigate the complexity of this process more inclusively and systematically.

Governance: Democracy All the Way Down

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Prefigurative Politics

This chapter examines indymedia's multilayered, transnational application of direct democracy, which in many ways anticipates and sets the stage for Occupy Wall Street. It focuses on the ways that democracy is understood and enacted by indymedia activists—from the development of an open media system where anyone can speak (democratizing the media), to the preference for consensus-based decision making (democratic governance), and the belief that activists must develop the structures, processes, and relationships within the movement that they aim to achieve in the world (prefigurative politics). Seen from this vantage, for indymedia activists democracy is multivalent, standing in as the end goal of a new society, a revolutionary tool to remake that society, and the everyday practice that allows for innovation and new forms of collective power.

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