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Wiley InterScience

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Global Networks

Volume 4 Issue 4, Pages 413 - 421

Published Online: 23 Sep 2004

© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd & Global Networks Partnership



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The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy
Jackie Smith 1
  1 State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Copyright 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd & Global Networks Partnership

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AbstractProtests against economic globalization helped give birth to the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space for civil society groups to coordinate actions and articulate shared visions for global change. Since 2001 the WSF has brought together hundreds of thousands of activists from all parts of the world. But creating an inclusive political space that is also effective at generating unified action has proved challenging. In this article I explore the central tensions in the 2004 WSF and explore the possibilities for the Forum to overcome these obstacles and expand global democracy.


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