12 articles in this issue
Elizabeth Smythe,Scott C. Byrd
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Peter J. Smith,Elizabeth Smythe
Since its inception in 2001 World Social Forum (WSF) has grown in numbers and drawn activists from all areas of the globe. It has also spawned a myriad of social forums around the world. But the pattern of participation within the WSF global event or with... see more
Pascale Dufour,Janet Conway
The Quebec Social Forum (QSF) took place 23-26 August 2007 in Montreal. It attracted about 5000 people from across Quebec. Both organizers and observers viewed the event as an unqualified success. In this article, we seek to describe and document this his... see more
Lesley J. Wood
Between 2001 and 2005, the Intercontinental Youth Camp at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil became associated with a decentralized, horizontalist form of organizing. When the polycentric forum took place in 2006, this horizontalist identity a... see more
Donatella della Porta,Lorenzo Mosca
Considered an innovation because of its capacity to develop transnational processes, the World Social Forum however also has strong local roots as well as effects on organizational models and collective identities at the domestic level. Focusing on the It... see more
Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle,Johanna Siméant
Transnational social movement studies have long neglected the way activists from the South, and particularly from Africa, have participated in World Social Forum processes. Alterglobal activists have also been accused of neglecting or dominating southern ... see more
A young man dressed as a clown shelters under our umbrella in the center of Belém in the downpour before the opening march begins while a group of people with painted bodies and feathered headdresses chant and charge up the middle as thousands of marchers... see more
Abigail E. Cameron
Henry Vandenburgh
Valentine M. Moghadam
Glen David Kuecker
Kirk S. Lawrence