The World Social Forum (WSF) emerged as an "open space" for exchanging ideas and promoting alternatives to capitalism. However, it has faced criticism from grassroots activists for being top-down, including political parties despite prohibitions, and favoring intellectuals. This article, based on the author's participation as an activist and ethnographer with the Movement for Global Resistance (MRG) in Barcelona and Peoples Global Action (PGA), examines the cultural politics of autonomous spaces at the margins of the WSF. The study provides an ethno-genealogy of the concept of autonomous space, argues that these spaces reflect broader networking logics and emerging organizational architectures, and suggests that autonomous spaces offer a promising model for rethinking the Forum's network-based organizational form.
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Juris, Jeffrey S. "Social forums and their margins: networking logics and the cultural politics of autonomous space." ephemera 5.2 (2005): 253-272.
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