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- ::[http://www.cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CFF08Announce|__2008-09 CACIM Forum Fellowship Announcement __]::
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---- July 11 2008 ::__The CACIM Forum Fellowships__:: __CACIM__ (Critical Action - Centre in Movement), based in New Delhi, India but active both in local and global networking, is an initiative towards promoting criticality in socio-political action and movement by promoting a culture of critical engagement and reflection. It is involved in detailed research on and documentation both of the World Social Forum and related processes and of socio-political movements in India; plays an active role in solidarity work with movements locally and globally; has been actively involved in the organising process of WSF in India and globally; publishes books, reports, newsletters, and bibliographies on the WSF and social movement, both in Hindi and English; and organises debates and discussions around related issues. For details on our work, see www.cacim.net; for details on the Forum and on our work on the Forum, see both www.openspaceforum.net and www.cacim.net; and for ‘official’ details on the Forum, www.worldsocialforum.org. In continuation of its efforts at promoting a critical engagement with socio-political movements in general and with the WSF process in particular, CACIM has instituted a __CACIM Forum Fellowships__ process, which provides opportunities to young activists, students, and researchers to critically study and engage with different aspects of the WSF process in India and globally. Through the Fellowships, we want to enable intensive, independent interaction with social and popular movements and civil organisations and networks in India and South Asia who are part of the WSF process and also with movements and organisations who have either boycotted or stayed away from the WSF and/or who take part in similar but alternative processes. We hope that the Fellowships can provide opportunities to the selected Fellows to develop a substantial understanding of the Forum and also engage with and study wider socio-political processes in the country and in the world as they are emerging; and through this, to contribute to strengthening both the Forum and socio-political movement. We invite Fellows to critically examine the procedural depth, methodology, potentialities, and limitations of the Forum and of the ‘new politics’ of ‘open space’ that it professes, and also the impacts that the WSF and these politics may be having on socio-political movements and processes in the region – positive and negative.
+ The __CACIM Forum Fellowship__ process is in continuation with its efforts at promoting a critical engagement with socio-political movements in general and with the WSF process in particular. The Fellowships are a space to enable intensive, independent interaction with social and popular movements, civil organisations and networks in India and South Asia who are part of the WSF process and also with movements and organisations who have either boycotted or stayed away from the WSF and/or who take part in similar but alternative processes.
We hope that the Fellowships will provide opportunities to young activists, students, and researchers to develop a substantial understanding of the Forum and also engage with and study wider socio-political processes in the country and in the world as they are emerging; and through this, to contribute to strengthening both the Forum and socio-political movement. We invite Fellows to critically examine the procedural depth, methodology, potentialities, and limitations of the Forum and of the ‘new politics’ of ‘open space’ that it professes, and also the impacts that the WSF and these politics may be having on socio-political movements and processes in the region – positive and negative. Selected Fellows are provided with literature published on the Forum and with contacts in India and worldwide, and receive introductions to mentors / advisors both within India and from around the world for assistance in sharpening their Fellowship work. The Forum Fellowship process includes an orientation workshop and at least one interim review meeting that takes place in the course of the Fellowships, as well as a final public Workshop where the Fellows present their research findings. CACIM also undertakes to publish and publicise the research papers.
- __The first round of the CACIM Forum Fellowship process__ has taken place during 2007-8, and has gone very well indeed. For details, see http://www.cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Fellowships; in short, we have three excellent papers, as follows :
::Mayur Chetia – ‘World Social Forum and the Reaction from the Indian Left’:: ::Mamata Dash – ‘WSF through the eyes of Peoples’ Movement Groups in India’:: The final version of these research papers will be available and posted in mid-late August 2008, and where they are then going to be presented and discussed at a public and all-India Workshop that CACIM is organising in New Delhi in late August 2008. We have been very pleased indeed to have had the following serve as Advisors / Mentors to the 2007-8 Forum Fellows, on a purely voluntary and solidarious basis : Aditya Nigam (CSDS, Delhi), Andrej Grubacic (San Francisco), Giuseppe Caruso (London and New York), Janet Conway (Toronto and Brock University, Ontario), Naveen Chander (Delhi), Peter Waterman (The Hague), and Sonia Alvarez (University of Massachusetts - Amherst).
+ Advisors / Mentors to the Fellowship process on a purely voluntary and solidarious basis include Aditya Nigam (CSDS, Delhi), Andrej Grubacic (San Francisco), Giuseppe Caruso (London and New York), Janet Conway (Toronto and Brock University, Ontario), Naveen Chander (Delhi), Peter Waterman (The Hague), and Sonia Alvarez (University of Massachusetts - Amherst).
Our deepest thanks to them all !
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- Changes : The 2007-8 Forum Fellowships were offered for a period of three months and provided Fellows with a sum of Rs 40,000. Learning from the experience of the first round, and in particular from the feedback we received from our Fellows, the upcoming 2008-9 Forum Fellowships (__now announced – see__ http://www.cacim.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=CFF08Announce) are offered for a period of six months and will provide Fellows with an enhanced sum of Rs 50,000. CACIM takes care of all travel and staying expenses for attending all the meetings in the Fellowship process. We invite your critical interest in this process, including spreading the word and encouraging people to apply !
- ''::CACIM is committed to promoting diversity in all its work, and women and other persons are encouraged to apply.::''
+ ''::CACIM is committed to promoting diversity in all its work, and encourages women and others from minority and marginalised groups to apply. We especially encourage those who have been active within the Forum process to apply.::''
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