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World Social Forum : Critical Explorations (eBook)

The Challenging Empires Series
Type: e-book
Genre: Social Science, Politics & Society
Language: English
Price: ₹450
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<em>“Be the change you want to see in the world.”</em>
(Mahatma Gandhi, activist and philosopher from India, 1869-1948, internationally respected for his doctrine of non-violence)

Our world is today at a time of enormous change. On the one hand, there is tremendous scientific and technological change taking place, which in turn is contributing powerfully to widespread social and cultural change of many kinds; there are enormous changes in the world economy leading both to a massively growing concentration of wealth and also to a deepening and widening of precarity across the world; and we are in an accelerating and deepening ecological crisis as a consequence of massive overconsumption and the rape of Mother Earth.

On the other hand, there is intensifying social and political resistance, now across the world and across many sections of societies, both to the negative impacts of all these changes and also to continuing structural injustice...

About the Authors

Jai Sen is a researcher based in New Delhi, India, and now also in Ottawa, Canada. An architect by training and first practice, he became an activist around the rights of the labouring poor, and is now a student of the history and dynamics of movement. Seeing critical reflection as a potent contribution to building transformative power, his present work is around creating spaces for reflection in movement, in different media. Author, editor, and/or co-editor of several books and articles on movement and the globalisation of movement, he is presently Director and coordinator of CACIM (Critical Action : Centre in Movement) and Co-Coordinator of OpenWord.

jai.sen@cacim.net

Peter Waterman taught at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, for nearly thirty years, and has specialised on international labour and social movements. He has been active in internationalist activities all his life, and now blogs @ http://www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman. He is the author...

Book Details

ISBN: 9788190480826
Publisher: OpenWord
Number of Pages: 936
Availability: Available for Download (e-book)

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