World Social Forum

Abstract

The World Social Forum (WSF), also referred to as the “Movement of Movements,” is the world's preeminent gathering of anti‐neoliberal globalization forces, arrayed since 2001 under the banner “Another World is Possible.” The WSF and its regional, national and subnational counterparts have provided hundreds of thousands of participants with a space for networking, discussion, learning, and sharing strategies to resist the cultural, economic, social, and political threats of neoliberalism.

The Climatization of Global Politics

“…The World Social Forum has provided a global meeting space for social movements including the CCM since its first edition in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001. However, for many activists, the WSFs have not provided satisfying answers to the question of globality, with some accusing it of being inactive, undemocratic, or unrepresentative (Kohler 2012). Other alternative spaces, such as the Kli-maforum09 counter-summit to COP15 in Copenhagen ( 2009) and the People's Climate Summit in Cochabamba (2010), have provided opportunities for global voices in the climate justice movement to converge and to develop a radical analysis of the climate crisis.…”