EL FORO SOCIAL MUNDIAL ANTE EL RETO DE LA EMANCIPACIÓN

Abstract

The current challenge of initiating processes of emancipation, confronted with the multifaceted capitalist reality extended throughout the globe and the strong depoliticization of our present day societies, appears to be an impossible task. Biopolitics and technologies of control are finding more and more fine-tuned and sophisticated mechanisms to both administrate and depoliticize.The World  Social Forum, which presents itself as a social politicization model, emerged out of the rise in protests and criticisms that during the 90’s were made against despotism and the hegemony of the corporate and financial world. Since the beginning of the 21stCentury, the WSF has proposed the creation of a space for the counter-powers, a place to exchange, reflect and create a counter-hegemonic support network. However, even though the strong point of the Forum is found in its original structure, this appears  to be threatened by its global character, which in turn translates into its weakness.