Social Forums for Another World : A Contemporary Revealing Witness
By enrolling the idea of otherness as a prescription on current times, the movement of Social Forums is markedly different from preceding socio-political movements. What differentiates it is its practical reasoning and not its sociology. Its subjective unity comes neither from its lasting organization nor from a clear program but from shared paradigms. Such is the enquiry into Social Forum that it is about its inner workings and not its milieu. It ranges from the ethnology of globalization as questioning the paradigms and categories of politics and social sciences. The historicity system of this “other possible world” and the ways of building a political community inform us in a new way about the globalization effect.