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North American Research
Workshop on the World Social Forum Process
November 9-11,
2006 (Thurs.-Sat.)
Global
political and economic integration has generated important changes
in the ways people engage in politics. Transnational popular
mobilization around global economic conflicts has expanded, and the
World Social Forum has emerged as an important global space for
civil society groups to examine problems and to forge transnational
alliances to address them. The WSF process, moreover, has
generated a series of national, regional, and local social forums
that facilitate dialogue and cooperation across sectoral, national, and cultural differences.
This may be helping to create bridges between local and
global-level politics, thereby democratizing globalization
processes.
A
European group of scholars, under the leadership of prominent social
movement scholar Donatella della Porta, received
a large grant from the European Commission to study European-based
social movement activity, including that related to the social forum
process (see http://demos.iue.it/). This
network has conducted surveys and focus groups
with activists,
and they are working to develop methods for doing comparative
research on these phenomena. This workshop aims to foster
collaboration and to build upon the European initiative with data
from social forum-related events in North
America. The workshop itself would provide
opportunities for participants to learn about the experiences and
preliminary findings from the European team, to share their own
research on this theme, and to develop an outline for a
collaborative research grant proposal as well as a more general
operational plan to foster dialogue and communication on research
related to this project.
Participants
in Notre Dame's Study of Social Movements and Social Change are
welcome to attend the entire workshop, and members of the general
public are invited to attend the following events, which are part of
the conference:
Thursday November 9 4:30
p.m.
"'Think Globally Act Locally': Can the
World Social Forum Process
Transform Civil
Society?"
Hesburgh
Center for International
Studies Auditorium (public invited).
(Followed by a
reception)
Friday
November 10
11:00-12:15-Panel: Studying "Globalization
from Below" Lessons from the
European DEMOS project -Donatella Della Porta
(via video conference) and
Lorenzo Mosca.
Hesburgh
Center for International
Studies Auditorium (public invited)
Invited Workshop
Participants
Lucia Alvarez, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y
Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (UNAM)
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, associate professor of Sociology,
University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Marc Becker,
associate professor of history, Truman State University
Dorval Brunelle,
professor of sociology, University of Quebec at Montreal,
Canada
Scott Byrd, Doctoral student in Sociology,
University of California Irvine
Donatella della Porta, Professor of Sociology, European
University
Institute, Florence
Pascale Dufour, Professeure adjointe,
Département de science politique,
Université de Montréal
Jeffrey Juris, assistant professor of anthropology,
Arizona State University
Marina Karides, assistant professor of sociology,
Florida Atlantic
University
Alex Khasnabish, assistant professor of sociology and
social anthropology,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia
Lorenzo Mosca, European
University Institute - SPS Department, Florence
Italy
Alberto J. Olvera Rivera,
Director, Instituto de Investigaciones
Histórico-Sociales, Universidad Veracruzana, México
Ellen Reese,
associate professor of s ociology,
University of California
Riverside
Elizabeth Smythe, professor of political science,
Concordia University,
Alberta
Jay Smith, professor of
political science, Athabasca University,
Alberta
Canada
Lesley J. Wood, assistant professor, York
University, Toronto Ontario
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