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World Social Forum : Critical Explorations
Edited by Jai Sen and Peter WatermanFormat : Epub
Available at Into Ebooks
This book brings together some 35 essays from around the world – from authors young and old, women and men, black brown and white, and activists, scholars, and those in between – that enable us all to critically explore and understand this important phenomenon called the World Social Forum; and so to better know what kind of world we want to see and to build.
साम्राज्यों से संघर्ष श्रृंखला
The Idea of OpenWord
OpenWord is a new publishing initiative towards promoting open expression, critical engagement, and a spirit, culture, and practice of critical openness. It is the publishing arm of CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement) and has grown out of the experiences of the members and associates of CACIM and their attempts to practise and promote criticality in socio-political and cultural action and movement. We do so on the understanding that critical thinking and critical engagement, and, through this, critical action contribute to broader and more effective transformational social power.
Book Launch and Seminar
Towards Building More Just and Democratic Societies
Discussions on New Social Movement in Our Times
And, the launch of two books Interrogating Empires and Imagining Alternatives
Publishers : OpenWord and Daanish Books
Date : January 17, 2012; Tuesday.
Venue : The Attic,
36, Regal Building, Connaught Place,
on Sansad Marg (Parliament Street), near and above The Shop and People Tree, New Delhi.
In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India, in January 2004, civil activists and students organised a major series of seminars at the University of Delhi to discuss the Forum and its politics. The ‘Open Space Seminar Series’, as it came to be called, picked up on the idea of the Forum as a relatively free and open space, where all kinds of ideas could meet and be discussed. This series of three books explores the new ideas generated by the discussions that took place in 2004 and has chapters based on the presentations made by academics and activists during the seminars, as well as the discussions arising from the presentations.
