[WSF-Discuss] Announcing : Publication in September 2008 of the definitive Second Edition of WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : CHALLENGING EMPIRES

Tue Aug 12 09:16:18 UCT 2008

Announcing : Publication in September 2008 of the definitive Second  
Edition of WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : CHALLENGING EMPIRES

August 2008
Please buy, and please send on – and support this non-profit  
initiative by sending this message on especially to people,  
libraries, and institutions who you think will place advance orders  
for this book !

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : CHALLENGING EMPIRES

is going to be available again next month – September !

PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW !

Even today, many people say that World Social Forum : Challenging  
Empires – published back in 2004 – is still the classic on the WSF.

And now, a second, updated edition of this book is going to be  
available - as of September 2008, and for sale at the European Social  
Forum at Malmö.  With eight great new, cutting edge essays giving  
both the big picture and also intense critically reflective detail,  
including by organisers of the two most recent Fora – the US Social  
Forum Atlanta and the Québec Social Forum :

Pierre Beaudet - Asterix on the St. Lawrence
Dorval Brunelle - Citizen Mobilisation in the Americas and the Birth  
of the WSF
Emma Dowling, interviewed by Rebecca Shah - The World Social Forum,  
Beyond Critique and Deconstruction
Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, and Cindy Wiesner - The Road  
to Atlanta: Reflections on the Organising History of the U.S. Social  
Forum
Irene León and Sally Burch - The World Social Forum: Current  
Challenges and Future Perspectives
Jean Nanga - The World Social Forum in Africa
Judy Rebick - Another U.S. Is Happening!
Achin Vanaik - Globalising the WSF: Ironies, Contrasts, Challenges

Edited by Jai Sen and Peter Waterman; published by Black Rose Books,  
Montréal, Canada

Four key sections :

PART 1 Antecedents: Critical Perspectives

PART 2 Critical Engagement: The World Social Forum

PART 3 Globalising the Forum: The Forum in the World

PART 4 Looking Beyond: Possible Futures, Possible Worlds

Plus, as in the First Edition, all the basic WSF documents and also  
most of the key independent documents that have appeared over recent  
years.

For more information on the book and to place advance orders, see :  
http://www.blackrosebooks.net/wsf.htm

 From the Black Rose website :

Experimenting with a politics that can cope with uncertainty : This  
comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging  
discussions, debates, and arguments which have gone into making the  
World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of  
alternative ideas and practices in the present world. Building on the  
First Edition (published in India by The Viveka Foundation, New  
Delhi, in 2004), this Second Edition has been revised and updated to  
include coverage of Social Forums that took place as recently as the  
summer of 2007.

Here is what some critics had to say about the First Edition:

     "If you want to know how the World Social Forum was formed and  
what the opinion of some of the main actors in it is on issues such  
as globalization, transnational feminism, justice and peace among  
others, this is the book to read." --VirtualActivism.org

     "A useful array of writings on the entire WSF process--the  
global context in which it emerged, the manner in which different  
movements and ideologies have interacted and shaped this process and  
the manner in which it has itself grown in the past years." --Aniket  
Alam, The Hindu

     "An excellent effort at combining both information and critical  
reflection on the World Social Forum phenomenon." --Massimo De Angelis

     "World Social Forum: Challenging Empires is a stupendous  
collection of essays, documents and statements, a critical self- 
consideration of the WSF process by a variety of people." --Milan  
Rai, The New Standard

     "A stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading." -- 
Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center

Contributors include: Michael Albert, Sonia E. Alvarez, Samir Amin,  
Pierre Beaudet, Walden F Bello, Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and  
Brendan Smith, Johanna Brenner, Dorval Brunelle, Sally Burch and  
Irene León, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emma Dowling, Nawal El  
Saadawi, Arturo Escobar, Linden Farrer, David Graeber, Andrej  
Grubacic, Michael Leon Guerrero, Tammy Bang Luu, and Cindy Wiesner,  
P.J. James, Michael Löwy, Muto Ichiyo, Michal Osterweil, Judy Rebick,  
Teivo Teivainen, Achin Vanaik, Gina Vargas, and Chico Whitaker, as  
well as Jai Sen and Peter Waterman

Editors :

JAI SEN, an architect by training and a housing-rights activist  
during the 1970s and 80s, is an independent researcher living in New  
Delhi who has contributed to a number of works documenting the World  
Social Forum. Editor also of Are Other Worlds Possible ?  Talking New  
Politics (Zubaan, New Delhi, 2005), he is now associated with CACIM  
(India Institute for Critical Action - Centre in Movement;  
www.cacim.net) in New Delhi, which among other things maintains  
OpenSpaceForum, one of the more comprehensive sites for information  
on the WSF (www.openspaceforum.net) and WSFDiscuss, an open and  
unmoderated forum on the World Social Forum and on related social and  
political movements and issues.

PETER WATERMAN, who taught at the Institute of Social Studies, The  
Hague, for nearly thirty years, has specialised in labour and social  
movements and has been active in international organisations all his  
life. He is the author of Globalisation, Social Movements, and the  
New Internationalisms and of Recovering Internationalism, Creating  
the New Global Solidarity : Labour, Social Movements and Emancipation  
in the 21st Century (First Edition on the Choike website: http:// 
www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/6439.html)

400 pages, 7x10, resources, bibliography, index

Paperback $28.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-308-3
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-308-1

Hardcover $57.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-55164-309-0
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-309-X

______________________________

Jai Sen
jai.sen at cacim.net
CACIM, A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India
www.cacim.net
Ph : +91-11-4155 1521, 4155 0963 - PLEASE NOTE NEW SECOND NUMBER !

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