Kosmopolitisch oder kolonial? Das Weltsozialforum als „Kontaktzone“

Obwohl die beeindruckende Vielfalt des Weltsozialforums (WSF) regelmäßig hervorgehoben wird, gibt es bisher wenig analytische Arbeit darüber, inwieweit die Praxis des WSF die Kommunikationsfähigkeit über bisher unüberwundene Differenzen ermöglicht und wie
Although the impressive diversity of the World Social Forum (WSF) is regularly noted, there has been little analytical work done on the degree to which the praxis of the WSF is enabling engagement across previously unbridged differences and how relations of power, particularly the coloniality of power, shape these interactions. Based on extensive participant observation at the WSF, this article analyses the “open space” of the WSF as a “contact zone” that, in different facets, is both cosmopolitan and colonial. To make this case, the author draws on the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Mary Louise Pratt and their different conceptualisations of contact zones, as well as the notions of coloniality and colonial difference arising in Latin American studies.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Kosmopolitisch oder kolonial? Das Weltsozialforum als „Kontaktzone“ ; volume:41 ; number:161 ; year:2021 ; pages:13-14 ; Peripherie ; 41, Heft 161 (2021), 13-14

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Conway, Janet

Further information

• DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v41i1.04
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023070612022549746297
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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