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Front Cover -- Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements and Credits -- 0. Invocations -- What Moves Us -- Shailja Patel -- The Movements of Movements: An Introduction and an Exploration -- Jai Sen -- 1. Movementscapes -- From the Mountains of Chiapas to the Streets of Seattle: This Is What Democracy Looks Like -- David McNally -- Anti-Systemic Movements and Transformations of the World-System, 1968-1989 -- Fouad Kalouche and Eric Mielants -- Beyond Altermondialisme: Anti-Capitalist Dialectic of Presence -- André C Drainville -- Storming Heaven: Where Has the Rage Gone? -- Tariq Ali -- Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism -- Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel -- Indigenous Feminism and the Heteropatriarchal State -- Andrea Smith -- Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Neo-Zapatista Social Movement Networks -- Xochitl Leyva Solano -- 2. The Movements Of Movements: Struggles for Other Worlds -- Dalits, Anti-Imperialist Consciousness, and the Annihilation of Caste -- Anand Teltumbde -- Rethinking Self-Determination: Lessons from the Indigenous-Rights Discourse -- Jeff Corntassel -- The Tapestry of Neo-Zapatismo: Origins and Development -- Xochitl Leyva Solano and Christopher Gunderson -- Ecological Justice and Forest Rights Movements in India: State and Militancy-New Challenges -- Roma and Ashok Choudhary -- Open Space in Movement: Reading Three Waves of Feminism -- Emilie Hayes -- International Feminisms: New Syntheses, New Directions -- Virginia Vargas -- Re-Creating the World: Communities of Faith in the Struggles for Other Possible Worlds -- Lee Cormie -- Mahmoud Mohamed Taha: Islamic Witness in the Contemporary World -- François Houtart -- Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and Its Transnational Transformation -- James Toth.

"Becoming-Woman"? Between Theory, Practice, and Potentiality-Michal OsterweilThe Asymmetry of Revolution-John Holloway; The Shock of Victory-David Graeber; Gathering Our Dignified Rage: Building New Autonomous Global Relations of Production, Livelihood, and Exchange-Kolya Abramsky; Towards the Autonomy of the People of the World: Need for a New Movement 449 of Movements to Animate People's Alliance Processes-Muto Ichiyo; Towards a Fifth International?-Samir Amin; The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation-Rodrigo Nunes; 'We Still Exist'-François Houtart

Examines the dynamics of power relations & global civil cooperation within the non-state world & among non-state actors. Although civil organizations have played a key role in the democratization of local, national, & global societies, the power of civility has been structurally permeated with extremely anti-democratic undercurrents that threaten to undermine democratization. As a result, civil cooperation is moving toward global corporation & hegemonic corporativism. Special attention is given to the role of civility which is central to the dynamics of power in civil society. The World Social Forum is used as an example to examine emerging global civil cooperation & networking, especially the tendency for leadership of non-governmental organizations to move to more powerful positions at national & global levels which contradicts the goal of greater participation by "the people." There is a need to recognize the degree to which the leadership is "coagulating into what has many of the characteristics of a powerful transnational class." Suggestions are offered for ways to shift to an alternative politics. References. J. Lindroth

The author takes a critical look at the attempts of the leftist government of West Bengal to restrict the use of hand-rickshaws in Calcutta, the plight of the hand-rickshaw pullers. He castigates blind "modernization" being forced on the city by the left

We are living through a time of the rise of dramatically new politics, including civil politics, at local, national, transnational, and global levels, and new global networks among refugees, migrants, and religious groups. One of the most prominent manifestations of world civil politics is the World Social Forum, which held its first world meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001. Based on issue analysis and diagnosis, the Forum aims to encourage the formulation of alternative proposals and strategies to neo‐liberal "pensée unique" and to all forms of fundamentalism. The dramatic growth in numbers attending the world event – from around 25,000 in 2001 to over 100,000 in 2004 – attests to the relevance of the Forum to people all over the world.While it calls itself "Social", the Forum is a fundamentally political idea and promotes a specific vocabulary, grammar, and culture of politics. We call for a wide‐ranging, critical, and insistently plural exploration of the idea and concept of "open space" as a political‐cultural concept, focusing on the Forum and its self‐defined culture(s) of politics. In these terms, the Forum represents both an important experiment and something of a paradox. On the one hand, it offers a rich vision of an "open space" for movements that challenge empires and celebrate diversity and plurality. On the other hand, the open space is circumscribed by a specific conception of politics and a specific ideological orientation. Is multiplicity sustainable within and in relation to a single, "unique" larger idea? Can the culture of "open space" politics operate coherently both within the Forum and in its relations with the world it seeks to change?

We are living through a time of the rise of dramatically new politics, including civil politics, at local, national, transnational, & global levels, & new global networks among refugees, migrants, & religious groups. One of the most prominent manifestations of world civil politics is the World Social Forum, which held its first world meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in Jan 2001. Based on issue analysis & diagnosis, the Forum aims to encourage the formulation of alternative proposals & strategies to neoliberal "pensee unique" & to all forms of fundamentalism. The dramatic growth in numbers attending the world event -- from around 25,000 in 2001 to over 100,000 in 2004 -- attests to the relevance of the Forum to people all over the world. While it calls itself "Social," the Forum is a fundamentally political idea & promotes a specific vocabulary, grammar, & culture of politics. We call for a wide-ranging, critical, & insistently plural exploration of the idea & concept of "open space" as a political-cultural concept, focusing on the Forum & its self-defined culture(s) of politics. In these terms, the Forum represents both an important experiment & something of a paradox. On the one hand, it offers a rich vision of an "open space" for movements that challenge empires & celebrate diversity & plurality. On the other hand, the open space is circumscribed by a specific conception of politics & a specific ideological orientation. Is multiplicity sustainable within & in relation to a single, "unique" larger idea? Can the culture of "open space" politics operate coherently both within the Forum & in its relations with the world it seeks to change? 16 References. Adapted from the source document.