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The Future of the World Social Forum: The work of translation

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  • Boaventura De Sousa Santos

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues that the WSF is the first large international progressive movement following the neo-liberal backlash in the early 1980s. The WSF holds out the hope that another world is possible but while the WSF reveals the diversity of social struggles fighting against neo-liberal globalization all over the world call it calls for a giant work of translation. On the one hand, there are local movements and organizations that are very different in their practices and objectives and embedded in different cultures. On the other, there are transnational organizations, from the South and the North, that differ widely among themselves. He asks how to build articulation, aggregation and coalition among these different movements and organizations? And proposes translation as the alternative to general theory. Development (2005) 48, 15–22. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100131

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  • Boaventura De Sousa Santos, 2005. "The Future of the World Social Forum: The work of translation," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 48(2), pages 15-22, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:48:y:2005:i:2:p:15-22
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    1. Nicole Doerr, 2009. "How European Protest Transforms Institutions of the Public Sphere - Discourse and Decision-Making in the European Social Forum Process," KFG Working Papers p0008, Free University Berlin.
    2. Danny Wildemeersch & Jan Masschelein, 2018. "Lessons from the South: Research Collaboration as an Educational Practice," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(11), pages 1-14, November.
    3. Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Don, Anurasiri Nalaka Geekiyanage & Arachchillage, Aruna Prasad Nissanka & Mukherjee, Sacchidananda & Fatimah, Yuti Ariani, 2020. "Translation in Social and Environmental Sustainability: Case of Energy Sector in few Asian Countries," SocArXiv 5bgz6, Center for Open Science.

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