[Reader-list] FW: New Publication on WSF - Talking New Politics

[Jai Sen]

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    Jai 

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From: Zubaan <zubaanwbooks at vsnl.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 18:01:04 +0530
To: Jai Sen <jai.sen at vsnl.com>
Subject: New Publication on WSF - Talking New Politics

 
Are Other Worlds Possible?

Talking New Politics

Eds. Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini

ISBN 81 8901327 0 

 
In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India in
January 2004, civil activists and students organised a major series of
seminars in Delhi University to discuss the Forum and its politics. The
'Open Space' seminar series, as it came to be called, picked up on the idea
of the Forum as a relatively free space, where all kinds of ideas could meet
and be discussed.
A set of three volumes based on this seminar will be published by Zubaan
during 2005. The series was organised by Mukul Mangalik, Madhuresh Kumar,
and Jai Sen.
 
The books ­ individually and as a set - are designed to lend themselves to
the examination and explanation of larger contextual and structural issues
that impact on our lives. The issues addressed in the books range from
globalisation to authoritarianism, militarisation and nuclearisation to
caste and race, fundamentalism, communalism and nationalism; from
patriarchy, sexuality, and questions of openness to cultures of politics and
the university as an open space. Also include the relationship of the World
Social Forum to new internationalisms, and the culture and politics of
cyberspace. By presenting multiple perspectives, they help the reader make
examined choices.  The wide variety of views and ideas expressed, and the
various graphic devices that are used, orient the reader towards
facilitating a climate of critical reflection, enquiry, and discussion.
 
Each book will focus on a different aspect:
v      Book One Talking New Politics will introduce the World Social Forum
and present an in-depth view of the cultures of politics facing both the
Forum and the world today.

v      Book Two Empires will examine the effect on our lives of external
forces like globalisation, militarisation, and fundamentalism, and of
structural factors like caste, patriarchy, and sexuality.

v      Book Three Alternatives and Imagination will critically examine the
levels and meanings of a more open world, including of the university as an
open space and the new internationalisms that seem possible through
cyberspace and its influence on the existing world.

The first volume Talking New Politics, edited by Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini
was released in January 2005. This book, the first in a series that explore
the new ideas generated by the discussions that took place on all these
issues, comprises chapters based on the transcripts of presentations made by
academics and activists during the seminars, as well as discussions on
questions arising from the presentations. Can the World Social Forum help us
to conceptualise and actualise a new politics? Can this new politics be free
from violence? Can the experience and knowledge of great movements such as
the movement for the environment, and the women's movement, contribute to
the creation of a new politics? How can such a politics be sustained?
 
The essays in this book, written in an easy and accessible style, are
informed by these questions. They offer the reader different and complex
ways of understanding the processes that have helped to shape the World
Social Forum and the new politics that seems to be emerging, and what all
this represents, for life, society, and politics more generally. The
contributors to the first volume include Jai Sen, Nivedita Menon, Veena Das,
Mary E. John, Kavita Srivastava, Vinod Raina, Aditya Nigam, Amar Kanwar,
Urvashi Butalia, Deepak Mehta, Swapan Mukherjee, P V Rajagopal, Dilip
Simeon, Ezequiel Adamovsky, Chloé Keraghel, and Lachlan Tan
 
The books are being published by Zubaan. Zubaan is an independent non-profit
publishing house, established by Urvashi Butalia. It is an associate imprint
of Kali for Women. The word ŒZubaan¹ in Hindustani means, literally, tongue.
But it has many other meanings, which work at different levels: it stands
for voice, language, and speech.
 
For enquiries please contact:
Jaya Bhattacharji/ Satish Sharma
Zubaan,
An Associate of Kali for Women,
K-92, First Floor, Hauz Khas Enclave
New Delhi ­ 110016
INDIA
Tel: +91-11-26521008, 26514772 and 26864497
Email: zubaanwbooks at vsnl.net


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Early 2005 : 'World Social Forum : Challenging Empires' NOW OUT also in
German, Japanese, Spanish !
NEW Webspace January 2005 !  www.openspaceforum.net ­ check it out !
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New Book January 2005 ! 'Are Other Worlds Possible ?  Talking NEW Politics'
Preview : http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2487.html
Publishers : Zubaan / zubaanwbooks at vsnl.net
K-92 Hauz Khas Enclave - First Floor, New Delhi 110 016, India
Tel: +91-11-2652 1008, 2686 4497 and 2651 4772
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New in late 2004 :¹Explorations in Open Space : The World Social Forum and
Cultures of Politics¹
Issue 182 of the  International Social Science Journal
Editorial advisers : Chloé Keraghel & Jai Sen
www.unesco.org/shs/issj
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2004 Book ! 'World Social Forum : Challenging Empires'
Edited by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html
India / South Asia distribution : Viveka Foundation,
tanmoy at vivekafoundation.org
European distribution : Global Book Marketing,
info at globalbookmarketing.co.uk
2005 : NOW OUT also in German, Japanese, Spanish !
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Jai Sen / CA/CIM - Critical Action / Centre in Movement
A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India
jai.sen at vsnl.com 
[+ while travelling, jai_sen2000 at yahoo.com]
M 91-98189 11325 
T 91-11-5155 1521 and 2433 2451



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