The World Social Forum between politics and NGOs

Bibliographic Data

ID12716019
AuthorsSimone Lovera‐Bilderbeek (Guyra Paraguay, corresponding author), Simone Lovera-Bilderbeek (Global Forest Coalition, Asuncion, Paraguay)
Year2019
Volume17
Issue2
Pages237-244
Publication date2019-10-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2019.1670960
OpenAlexW2978199035
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

The WSF was established as a forum that gathered movements opposing a certain political ideology, neoliberalism, but it has refrained from openly supporting a political ideology. The WSF has empowered more radical leftish movements and thus played a role in the separation of these movements from more conventional left-wing parties that have embraced neoliberal capitalism as an undefeatable reality. Right-wing politicians have capitalized on this separation by promoting a populist rejection of capitalist elites. WSF itself has profiled itself as a forum of social movements rather than a forum of socialist movements. The article analyses to what extent the hegemonic role of NGOs in the WSF is at the roots of this apolitical positioning and to what extend rightsholder movements might have benefited from a more explicit embracement of a coherent socialist political alternative rather than the diversity that WSF has fostered as one of its central principles

Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law

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