World Social Forum and the cosmopolitan project

Abstract

This paper analyses the World Social Forum, a gathering of transnational activists and networks, from which emerges the so-called “alterglobalist movement”, that is, for another kind of globalization. Our analysis reviews the constitutive elements of the Forum and draws from the concept of cosmopolitanism to investigate the possibilities and limits of the construction of post-national identities in the global sphere, based on shared and voluntary values.