Activist knowledges on the anti-globalization terrain: transnational feminisms at the World Social Forum

This article surveys and analyses feminist knowledges about the politics of global justice as they are being produced through engagement with the World Social Forum (WSF) process at the global level over a ten year period. Among these are alternative genealogies of the global justice movement, critical analyses of its gendered culture and hegemonic masculinities, feminist discourses of intersectionality and transversality, and tensions between gender justice and economic justice. The author argues for the distinctive character of feminist knowledges and their substantive contributions to the politics of global justice, while also recognizing their heterogeneity, contradictions and lacunae, and their relational character vis-à-vis other political currents on the terrain of global justice