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The World Social Forum and the Global Left

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  • Boaventura De Sousa Santos

    (University of Coimbra (Portugal), bsantos@wisc.edu)

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This article has two purposes. First, it aims to put the development of the World Social Forum (WSF) within a broad theoretical and historical context. Specifically, my goal is to understand the WSF in relation to the crises of left thinking and practice of the last thirty or forty years. Second, it offers an analysis of some recent debates about the future of the WSF. It raises questions concerning its organizational makeup and asks whether it should continue as it is, or rather give way to other kinds of initiatives and struggles. Against critics such as Walden Bello, I argue that the WSF should continue and, given certain organizational changes, will contribute to the theory and practice of left movements throughout the world in the twenty-first century.

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  • Boaventura De Sousa Santos, 2008. "The World Social Forum and the Global Left," Politics & Society, , vol. 36(2), pages 247-270, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:36:y:2008:i:2:p:247-270
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329208316571
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    1. Jane Burt, 2019. "Research for the People, by the People: The Political Practice of Cognitive Justice and Transformative Learning in Environmental Social Movements," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(20), pages 1-20, October.

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