Abstract
The author argues that the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, came out as an initiative from committed intellectuals and cosmopolitan activists. He outlines the emergence process of an influential and well-connected activist cosmopolitan elite within the alter-globalization movement. He then focuses on consequences of the divide between hyper mobile, globe-trotting leaders and local and regional grassroots activists.
DOI
101163/187219108X256217
Recommended Citation
Pleyers.
2009.
"The World Social Forum, a Globalisation from Below?."
Societies Without Borders
3 (1):
71-89.
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol3/iss1/6