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CACIM at WSF Tunis 2013

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Tunisia Now: Some articles about the situation in Tunisia in the context of the WSF 2013 being held in Tunis.+

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Decolonising the WSF : A critical discussion of the production of knowledges within and about the social forum process+

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Workshop at the World Social Forum at Tunis on March 28 2013, second slot, organised by Ciranda, CACIM, University of Hildesheim, and NIGD+

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Who produces knowledge about the WSF ? And for whom ? This workshop seeks to intervene in current debates about the future of the WSF by putting decolonisation on the agenda, and coming up with proposals - and perhaps actions - for shifting the balance of power. While the WSF has enabled an unprecedented diversity of movements to come together and learn from one another, and to a significant extent succeeded in giving voice to marginalised groups, it also suffers from its own hierarchies and exclusions which reflect the colonial, capitalist and patriarchal power relations that structure the world as a whole. The aim of this workshop is to bring together participants who in various ways are involved in producing and/or disseminating knowledge about the WSF and the world of movement – including researchers, organisers, educators, communicators, publishers, ordinary movement members, and members of official WSF bodies – for a critical discussion of knowledge and power, and to consider how we can construct more sustainable, inclusive, and reflexive processes of knowledge production that can contribute to decolonising the WSF.+

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The workshop will be participatory and organised in two parts :+

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The first session will critically interrogate the formations of power that currently structure the production of knowledges within and about the WSF, asking whose knowledges ‘count’ and whose knowledges are marginalised. Participants will critically and self-reflexively discuss how different knowledge producers are positioned – in relation to popular movements and within geopolitical hierarchies –, how they produce knowledge from these positions, and the consequences this has for knowledge production. This will involve, among others, exploring the meaning of categories such as ‘activists’ and the relationship between ‘academic’ and ‘other’ knowledges.+

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The second session will look more specifically at the production and dissemination of knowledges within and about the WSF, and the value of such knowledges for those about whom or in whose name/s such knowledges are often produced, considering the possibilities for as well as obstacles to co-production and sharing of knowledges. Participants will examine the political economy of knowledge production and -publication, including the role of academia and the knowledge industry, and discuss possibilities for inclusive and collaborative forms of knowledge production – of which communities and movements can become the primary beneficiaries – offered by practices of shared communication, popular education and open publishing.+

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WSF2006:SomeHardQuestionsRelatedArticles

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http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=153" rel="">The World Social Forum (WSF) : Periodicity; Oded Grajew, nd, c.May 2006

http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=34 " rel="">Understanding the World Social Forum : The WSF as an Emergent Learning Process - Notes on the Dynamics of Change, Jai Sen, January 2006 published in Mainstream (New Delhi), March 25 2006, pp 9-24.

http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=159" rel="">The empire, the movement, and the politics of scale: Considering the World Social Forum by Janet Conway, February, 2005 Prepared for “Towards a Political Economy of Scale: Studies in Political Economy'' Conference, York University, February 3-5, 2005.

http://www.openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=35" rel="">Social Forums, Social Movements, and Social Change : A Response to Peter Marcuse on the Subject of the World Social Forum, Janet Conway, June 2005 in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 29.2, June 2005+

The World Social Forum (WSF) : Periodicity; Oded Grajew, nd, c.May 2006

Understanding the World Social Forum : The WSF as an Emergent Learning Process - Notes on the Dynamics of Change, Jai Sen, January 2006 published in Mainstream (New Delhi), March 25 2006, pp 9-24.

The empire, the movement, and the politics of scale: Considering the World Social Forum by Janet Conway, February, 2005 Prepared for “Towards a Political Economy of Scale: Studies in Political Economy'' Conference, York University, February 3-5, 2005.

Social Forums, Social Movements, and Social Change : A Response to Peter Marcuse on the Subject of the World Social Forum, Janet Conway, June 2005 in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 29.2, June 2005

WSF2006:Reporting

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AboutUs

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WSF2008

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Open Space Seminar Series

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As with the ISSJ Space, we encourage you to post your comments on the articles as you read them, post reviews of any article as you deem fit, or submit articles of your own.+

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OurPublications

randybosh — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:37:11 +0100

- Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman; Compilers. January 2007. Published by CACIM, New Delhi and CCS, Durban. Read More+ Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar with Patrick Bond and Peter Waterman; Compilers. January 2007. Published by CACIM, New Delhi and CCS pos software, Durban. Read More

Film: Opening Space

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The film ‘Opening Spaces’ is an encounter with an experiment. Part document, part reflection, part ofhow to do it draws from the experience of the Open Space Seminar Series which was held across various campuses of Delhi University in the run up to WSF 2004 (Mumbai). Using footage filmed at and around two key sessions of the Series (Caste and Race/Gender and Sexuality) the film examines the manner in which the coming of the Forum to India influenced the vocabulary and strategy of movements connected in varying degrees to the global arena. Through interviews with various stakeholders and lot of essay writing brought together by this Series - academicians, activists, NGO representatives and students - the film attempts to provide a view of the of the WSF in the “real world” - how it is thought about, talked about and acted out in locations outside the dateline of its brief existence as ‘Event’. The focus is thus on the Forum as Process - on examining how ideas acquire a momentum of their own, how they are played out in diverse arenas and are renegotiated and reinvented by actors in their search for relevance.+

The film ‘Opening Spaces’ is an encounter with an experiment. Part document, part reflection, part of how to do it draws from the experience of the Open Space Seminar Series which was held across various campuses of Delhi University in the run up to WSF 2004 (Mumbai). Using footage filmed at and around two key sessions of the Series (Caste and Race/Gender and Sexuality) the film examines the manner in which the coming of the Forum to India influenced the vocabulary and strategy of movements connected in varying degrees to the global arena. Through interviews with various stakeholders and lot of essay writing brought together by this Series - academicians, activists, NGO representatives and students - the film attempts to provide a view of the of the WSF in the “real world” - how it is thought about, talked about and acted out in locations outside the dateline of its brief existence as ‘Event’. The focus is thus on the Forum as Process - on examining how ideas acquire a momentum of their own, how they are played out in diverse arenas and are renegotiated and reinvented by actors in their search for relevance.