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technologies, most people are most comfortable and attuned with email. This has led us to privilege the
"chennai-wsfindia-2005 at openspaceforum.net" listserve. However, for those who would like to be venture beyond email, on the http://www.openspaceforum.net webspace, we also provide:
1. BLOG SPACE: OpenSpaceForum provides blog space for people to "report"
from the Chennai event, and also provides individuals the option of
creating your own blog rather than writing onto the "common" blog. Of
course, you need not restrict your blogging to the Chennai event, but
are welcome to engage with other related issues.
2. UPLOADING YOUR OWN CONTENT: OpenSpaceForum also provides individuals
the option to upload your own content such as photos, documents, etc
onto the site -- which will then be available worldwide.
3. ARTICLE SUBMISSION: While you could submit documents (Word, PDF, etc),
we also encourage you to use the article-submission feature to make some
of these documents accessible as plain text. Please also feel free to
comment on existing articles.
4. CREATING WIKI PAGES: You are also welcome to create new wiki pages,
which are then open to being edited by others. You are also welcome to
edit existing wiki pages, where it is possible to do so.
5. HELP FOR THOSE LESS FAMILIAR: The webspace also gives Help to those
less familiar with blogging and editing wiki pages, and in case you
would like to use this opportunity to do this.
Come and join us! Please only note that we are attempting this experiment at somewhat short notice, and there are bound to be rough edges. We are working to make all the above tools available and usable without too much effort. So please try and overlook the smaller problems you may find with all this. We welcome your feedback at "cacim AT cacim DOT net".
Our idea is also to do a collective and participative post-facto evaluation of this project, with a view to perhaps repeating this experiment, with greater preparation, for and at the polycentric Karachi Forum in January 2006. So you will be hearing more from us, in due course.
Join us in any or all of this !
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2. About Open Space Forum
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Open Space Forum was set up in 2004, in part, in connection with the work of the EIOS Collective, a new worldwide network of scholar-activists involved in or concerned with movement. The goal of this initiative is to explore and advance thinking and action involving new and more democratic ways of conducting and understanding politics and organisation within movements, institutions, and related political processes.
For more information, visit http://www.openspaceforum.net
This webspace is being reorganized, with relevant content being uploaded over the next couple of months. The proposed structure is listed below.
We welcome you to contribute to this process. This is very much still an experiment-in-progress.
Proposed Content on OpenSpaceForum: http://www.openspaceforum.net
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* Main Content
+ Books
. Articles from the special issue of ISSJ (International Social Science
Journal) 182 focussing on 'Explorations in Open Space : The World
Social Forum and Cultures of Politics'
. Link to content of World Social Forum : Challenging Empires, edited
by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman (2004)
. Essays from Are Other Worlds Possible ? Talking New Politics, edited
by Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini (2005)
. Other related material
+ Articles
. Articles by EIOS Collective members
. Articles by other activists and researchers
+ Seminar Series
. Transcripts from the Open Space Seminar Series held at the
University of Delhi, 2003
. Other related material
+ Films, photographs, audio recordings
+ Other content
. Stories/Experiences
. Bibliographies
. Chronologies
* The WSF in India
+ India at WSF 2006
. WSF seminar, Chennai, October 2005
+ India at WSF 2005
+ WSF 2004
+ ASF (Asia Social Forum) 2003
+ Other regional forums in India
. Bangalore Social Forum
. Delhi Social Forum
. Gujarat Social Forum
. Karnataka Social Forum
. Kerala Social Forum
. Tamil Nadu Social Forum
. Any other else ...
+ Report about SF-related meetings
+ WSF India (the organisation)
+ Links to critical and/or oppositional sites (for instance,
Mumbai Resistance, in January 2004)
+ Debates about the politics of the respective fora.
* WSF globally
+ WSF Events
. WSF 2005
. WSF 2004
. WSF 2003
. WSF 2002
. WSF 2001
+ Regional Forums
+ Others
* EIOS
+ About EIOS and the EIOS Collective
+ EIOS Events:
. EIOS 1: Workshop at Integria, Brazil
Proposal, reports, articles, etc.
. EIOS 2: Workshops at WSF 2005, Brazil
. EIOS 3: Proposed conference & related meetings in India, 2006
+ Other forthcoming EIOS activities
. Activities planned for Karachi Forum
. Proposed book on cultures of politics
+ Related people, organisations, projects
. Other Worlds Project
. Are Other Worlds Possible Project
. Ephemera
. Radical Theory Forum
* HELP
+ Editing wiki pages
+ Site navigation
+ Using blogs
+ Using discussion forums
+ ...
* Other
+ Links to related sites (groups, individuals, publications, sites .. )
+ Anything else
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3. About CACIM
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[ CACIM is just in the process of forming. The following is therefore taken from a draft document, and should be seen as being only work-in-progress.]
CACIM -- the India Institute for Critical Action : Centre in Movement -- proposes to be a hub within transnational networks among people and organisations located in different parts of the world. Its goal is to support and encourage activists, students, researchers, professionals, artistes, and thinkers, young and more mature, and both those belonging to the so-called 'civil' and also those excluded from this, belonging to the popular and 'incivil' worlds, who are involved in different ways with 'movement', in their individual work and also to network and work together.
CACIM has grown out of Critical Action (CA), an experiment since about 2001 in informal, voluntary association between individuals based in different parts of India and other countries focusing on the critical study of, reflection and exchange on, and engagement in emerging social and political movement.
[ CACIM webspace - http://www.cacim.net - under construction ]
CACIM is registered in India as a non-profit company. But, although based in one country, it will be transnationalist, 'global', and open in spirit and concern. At another level, our goal will be to develop and to conduct CACIM as a loose, flexible, responsive, and lightweight organisation, reflecting and manifesting its principles.
The principles that underlie CACIM's work are criticality, transnationalism and transcommunality, and engagement -- and at all times, and in many ways, a focus on movement.
We hope to articulate criticality through a focus on critical reflection and thought, and a spirit of self-reflexivity; critical action; and critical pedagogy. CACIM's work will also be based on and informed by the interrelated principles of voluntarism, mutual aid, and solidarity.
One aim and aspect of the application of CACIM's principles will be with respect to the question of the social and political dimensions of resource mobilisation for public work. We propose to open public debate in this critical area, and hope to be able to progressively define principles that can inform our own work and public work more generally.
We plan here to take full advantage of the rich tradition in India of debate and controversy in this area.
Over the next period, CACIM expects to have three main areas of activity:
Strategies and Cultures of 'Movement', Information Culture Technology, and Building Bridges.
Forthcoming activities:
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December 2005 - January 2006:
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Publication and launch of the first two volumes of the Hindi translation of 'World Social Forum : Challenging Empires', with the plan to use this as the basis of a major pedagogical experiment and intervention in cultures of politics in north / Hindi-speaking India.
Publication and launch of the Hindi edition of the first volume of the 'Are Other Worlds Possible?' series, English title Talking New Politics
Publication and launch of the second and third volumes of the 'Are Other Worlds Possible?' series, tentatively titled 'Interrogating Empires' and Imagining Alternatives'.
Mid 2006:
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EIOS3 -- the third EIOS meeting, a ten-day encounter of the 'Explorations in/of Open Space' project (EIOS) focusing on open space and civil movement; to be organised by CACIM near New Delhi. The four interrelated meetings and the preparatory process proposed will significantly take forward the EIOS process, a major exercise in critical scholar-activism and global networking that has taken shape over the past year around the concept of 'open space'.
If you are interested in knowing more about CACIM, write to us at "info AT cacim DOT net"
We hope you now have enough information on us, and look forward to your joining us -- right now on http://www.openspaceforum.net and
chennai-wsfindia-2005 at openspaceforum.net now, and soon also on http://www.cacim.net
With warm greetings, in peace and in solidarity -
Members of CACIM.
CACIM -- India Institute for Critical Action : Centre in Movement
A-3 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024, India Ph : +91-11/5155 1521, 2433 2451
Eml: info AT cacim DOT net
Web: http://www.cacim.net
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