The Mediterranean Social Forum (FSMED) will take place at Barcelona from the 16th to the 19th of June 2005.
The Action Research Network: Euromovements, in collaboration with other groups, is organizing a debate on activist research and social movements in the framework of the programmed FSMED activities.
The seminar will consist on short presentations of activist research experiences and an open debate with all the assistants. See summary of the debate below.

Practical information

Place: Fira de Barcelona – Plaza de Espanya. See the FSMED website for more information on how to arrive.
Date: Friday 17th from 14 to 16h
Language translation: English, French, Castilian, Catalan (More precise information will be available at this website or in the program of the FSEMED)

Summary

Several initiatives are growing within multiple trajectories emerging from the intersection of political action and investigation, with the aim of endow the process of social mobilization and social change with archiving, horizontal communication and researching techniques. We could frame it as ‘activist research’.
Are there new forms of commitment and antagonistic subjectivity emerging through the practice of activist research? What is activist research for? Why now? From where? …And how? To which extent does activist research redefine the relationship between academia and society? To which extent does it undermine the “Ivory Tower” structures? What kind of knowledge does it generate? How to manage that knowledge?