Jai Sen is a researcher based in New Delhi, India.  An architect by training and first practice, then an activist around the rights of the urban labouring poor, he is now a student of the history and dynamics of movement, local and global. Seeing critical reflection as a potent contribution to building transformative power, his present work is around creating spaces for more critical reflection and action in movement, in different media. He is the author or editor/co-editor of several books and articles on the World Social Forum and the globalisation of movement, including World Social Forum : Challenging Empires (Viveka Foundation, 2004), Talking New Politics (Zubaan, 2005), A Political Programme for the World Social Forum ?  Democracy, Substance, and Debate in the Bamako Appeal and the Global Justice Movements (CACIM and CCS Durban, 2007), and Interrogating Empires and Imagining Alternatives (OpenWord and Daanish, 2011); and with Peter Waterman, of World Social Forum : Critical Explorations (forthcoming from OpenWord, 2011). He is also Director at CACIM (Critical Action : Centre in Movement; www.cacim.net).
jai.sen@cacim.net