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| Encounter In Open Space 2 - The World Social forum and Cultures of Politics |
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| One Encounter to carry forward exploration and debate associated with the publication of the Special Issue no 182 of the International Social Science Journal |
One Encounter to carry forward exploration and debate associated with the publication of the Special Issue no 182 of the International Social Science Journal.
Based on a proposal made by Chloé Keraghel and Jai Sen, the Editor of the International Social Science Journal, John Crowley, agreed to devote a special issue of the journal to analyse the culture/s of politics of the World Social Forum as a social initiative / movement / entity / collective action. The issue N° 182 has now been published in its English version in December 2004, the month before the next World Social Forum in January 2005.
Jai Sen of CACIM (Critical Action / Centre in Movement) , New Delhi, and Chloé Keraghel of ESPERTISE (ESPace ouvERT, Transformations et Innovations Politiques et Sociales) in Paris proposed to UNESCO one workshop during the WSF, among contributors to a special issue of the International Social Science Journal of UNESCO, N° 182, due out in December 2004, on the theme ‘Explorations in Open Space: The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’.
To some extent by design, but also by good fortune, the contributors to this special issue come from many fields (activism, filmmaking, research, teaching, and administration) and from different parts of the world, South and North, and we expect most of them to be present to the WSF in Porto Alegre. This ‘Encounter in Open Space’ built on this special issue and carried forward the exercise of dialogic exploration in open space. The organisation of the encounter was also an experiment in collaboration in transnational space between two organisations based in different countries, carrying forward the collaboration between Chloé Keraghel and Jai Sen in the conceptualisation, design, and organisation of the special issue over this past year.
The Encounter was a workshop organised within the framework of the World Social Forum itself in Porto Alegre. The objective was to carry forward the intellectual-political exercise that the special issue attempts and – by holding the meeting during the World Social Forum in January 2005 – to equip all participants who were there to more critically and strategically participate in the event; and through this, in the World Social Forum as a political and cultural process.
In this context, and in conjunction with the special issue of the International Social Science Journal on open space, we proposed to organise two very substantive encounters between contributors to the special issue to take further the exercise of exploring the concept of open space as well as to explore the culture of politics of the WSF in a broader sense. Other issues to be discussed and the themes to be covered at the encounters were decided through a participatory process on an e-forum between the participants and were discussed among all the participants to the Encounter in Open Space 1 which is co-organised by CACIM and ESPERTISE and was held from 21st to 23rd January in the Federal State of Rio Grande Do Sul. This e-forum is opened since the month of November, two months before the meeting, and is an attempt to take into consideration all requests and ideas suggested by the participants to the WSF Seminar. The Encounter in Open Space 2 in itself attempted to be open spaces and to practice a culture of the politics of openness. This was a two-day event and was held in three sessions, organised on successive days in order to develop thoughts and sustained exchange between the participants and with a broader public.
Following the publication of the Issue, UNESCO has decided to invite two participants from Africa given that this continent was not represented by the contributors to the issue and that the continent is generally few represented in the World social forum itself. A call for paper was cosponsored by the International Social Science Journal and UNESCO has offered two scholarships to enable two African scholars to attend the Forum by contributing to the "Encounters in Open Space".
Co-organisers with UNESCO
Chloé Keraghel (ESPERTISE) and Jai Sen (CACIM)
ISSJ contributors participating to the Encounters In Open Space 1 and 2
Vanessa Andreotti ; Isabelle Biagiotti ; Giuseppe Caruso ; Anila Daulatzai ; Emma Dowling ; Taran Khan ; Carlos Sanchez Milani ; Michal Osterweil ; Geoffrey Pleyers ; Raul Enrique Rojo ; Immanuel Wallerstein
African scholars invited by UNESCO
Marcelle Dawson (from South Africa) and Boniface Dulani (from Mali)
Participants invited to the Encounters in Open Space 1 and 2
Jeff Juris ; Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza ; Rodrigo Nunes |
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