[Reader-list] [Announcements] Announcing : CACIM FORUM FELLOWSHIPS on the World Social Forum Process

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APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR CACIM FORUM FELLOWSHIPS (3)


Application Deadline : JANUARY 5 2008

More info @ http://cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Fellowships

CACIM (Critical Action - Centre in Movement), an initiative towards

cultivating and nurturing a culture of critical reflexivity and
action in individual and public work, is offering three Fellowships
on the World Social Forum process. CACIM is involved in detailed
research on and documentation of the Forum and other related

processes (such as social movements); plays an active role in the
organising process of WSF in India and globally; publishes books,
reports, newsletters, and bibliographies on the Forum, both in Hindi
and English; and organises debates and discussions around related

issues. For more details of our work on the Forum, see
www.openspaceforum.net and www.cacim.net.


This is the first round of the award of these Fellowships.  CACIM is
instituting the Forum Fellowships in order to provide opportunities
for young activists, students, and researchers to conduct studies on
different aspects of the Forum process in India and globally. This

would include intensive interaction with social and popular movements
and civil organisations and networks in India and South Asia who are
part of the WSF process, and also with movements and organisations
who have either boycotted or stayed away from the WSF and/or who take

part in similar but alternative processes.  Through this, we hope
that the Fellowships will provide the opportunity to the Fellows to
also engage with and study wider socio-political processes in the
country, in order for them to develop, broaden, and deepen a critical

engagement with the Forum process. We would like them to critically
examine the procedural depth, methodology, and potentialities of the
Forum and the 'new politics' of 'open space' that it professes and
the impact it and these politics may be having on socio-political

movements and processes in the region, by undertaking surveys,
interviews, and discussions with the main actors in the process.

The Forum Fellowships, offered for a period of three months (January
16 – April 15 2008), will provide candidates with Rs. 40,000 for the

preparation of a research paper to be presented at a Workshop on the
WSF that CACIM will organise during May-June 2007.  Selected Fellows
will be provided with literature published on the Forum and with
contacts in India and worldwide, and in general, will receive

assistance in sharpening their proposal; and CACIM will take care of
travel, boarding, and lodging for attending the Workshop.

For this first round of Fellowships, we are accepting applications
only from people living within India, both Indian and other

nationalities. Candidates may be from any discipline and background.
No formal academic qualification is required for application.
Applications can be in English or Hindi. Due to our own limitations
at the moment, we are not able to entertain applications in other

languages but we would welcome ideas for including them in this
endeavour.

The following are some suggested themes for study, but not
necessarily limited to these areas only :

- The dynamics of WSF as well as of Mumbai Resistance in 2004 and of

other autonomous spaces, counter forums, mobilisation campaigns, and
other forums that have emerged around the WSF process in India and
elsewhere in the world.

- The experiences, visions, aspirations, and expectations of the

various sections of society of the WSF, such as the Dalits, Adivasis,
women, the physically challenged, sexual minorities, and others, as
well as their questions and dilemmas in this regard, through their
engagement with the Forum process.


- The social and political significance of Forum process, its
relationship with other movements, its organising process, and its
regional and global expansion.

- The political economy and the organising principles of the Forum,

in India and worldwide.

Please send your application in along with :

- A short abstract indicating the scope and nature of your proposed
research and the approach you would like to take to it

- One writing sample (published or unpublished), and


- Your detailed CV

to Madhuresh, CACIM Programme Coordinator by email (cacim at cacim.net)
or post by January 5 2008.

CACIM, A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India Ph : +91-11-4155

1521, +91-11-2433 2451 cacim at cacim.net, www.cacim.net /
www.openspaceforum.net



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