[WSF-Discuss] [Fwd: Re: Response to Walden Bello's article "At Crossroads"-Frontline]

[Madhuresh]

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Subject: 	Re: [WSF-Discuss] Response to Walden Bello's article "At 
Crossroads"-Frontline
Date: 	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:52:29 +0530
From: 	CK VISHWANATH <ckvishwanath at gmail.com>
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What Sanil wrote is correct.The main problem is the relationship
btween intellectual elites and grassroot level reality.Feminists have
severly criticised WSF due to all mens social forum.Hardt and negri's
optimism of this type has been an overethusiatic one.

On 9/27/07, MN sanil <mn_sanil2003 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Walden Bello's observatios on the WSF and its praxis is relevent in every
> respect.As a student of sociology,the world social forum could not make any
> impact on marginalized communities like the Dalits and Adivasis of India,The
> non governmental organizations of the post globalized India used WSF as a
> space to articulate their interests.But,the ngoization of grassroots
> assertions created a kind of apolitical and cynical culture among the
> impoverished Dalits and Adivasis.Dalits are facing day to day caste based
> discriminations through out the different parts of India.Dalit think-tanks
> like Indian Institutue of Dalit studies paved a new directionsa to the
> economic and identitarian struggles of India.But,the majorioty of the
> illiterate dalits do not have any access to the debates related to the
> policy making.Due to the lack of social democracy,dalits have to face
> discriminations within the spheres of political democracy like Panchayatraj
> institutions.Dalit women have to face the draconic dicriminations that based
> on their dalit women identity by their non-Dalit male/female
> counterparts.Tribals are facing the brutal face of the development induced
> displacements through mining in ,national parks etc.
>            Poverty and unemployment create criminilization of labopur and it
> becomes the reason for the lumpen communal forces.The othering of the
> Muslims became a part of the normalised-hindu cultural lifestyle of the
> mainstream cum brahmanic India.
>              Feminization of labour and case based inequalities restrucutred
> the life of the majority of the women.The media induced patriarchal culture
> too streotype women in the public and private sphere of India.
>       The question of the marginalized voices of sexual minorities become a
> abberation in the homophobic cultural milieu of India.The sexual minorities
> are haunted by the cultural police of the rurual and urban spheres.
> Minorities like Muslims,Sikhs and Christians suffer from the majoritarian
> claims of the Hindutva forces.The so called academic rhetoric of secularism
> is not a panacea to solve thie identity crisis.
>  Farmers in India are committing suicide due to the advent of the neoliberal
> reforms.The peasantry of India is also stratifies on the basis of
> caste,religion ,region and gender.The alliance among them becomes a wild
> goose chase because of their dominant and subordiante identities.
>         Most of the above mentioned streams of India witnessed the political
> spectrum of WSF,Mumbai social forum,Kerala social forum etc.But,the mere of
> tropes of global civil society do not attract them.Most of them cherish WSF
> as a space to fulfill their dreams about the equity and justice.They believe
> in the radical transformation of the exisitng cum inequal statusquo through
> new forms of ideology and collective assertions.Their aspirations which are
> coloured by the neoliberal culture too becomes impediment to make networks
> among the wretched of the world.The neutral and radical social movements too
> could not transcend the existential dilemmas of the above mentioned
> powerless mass.The dearth of new ideology that can challenge the existing
> system is lacking in the discourses related to the World Social Forum.A kind
> of re-reading ogf the existing framework of the world social forum should be
> done by the people and collective assertions.It should try to create a
> healthy dialogue with the exisitng paradigms of world social forum.
> In Solidarity
> Sanil.M.N
> Research Scholar
> Centre For The Study of Social systems
> School of Social sciences
> Jawaharlal Nehru University
> New Delhi
> India
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