Jai Sen is an architect and editor of the two volume book set, The Movements of Movements’ He is also the editor of Interrogating Empires

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Jai Sen is an architect and editor of the two volume book set, The Movements of Movements'

He is also the editor of Interrogating Empires

Sen is based in New Delhi, India, and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin territory. He is an architect by training and first practice, then an activist around the rights of the laboring poor based in Kolkata, India, and now a student of the history and dynamics of movement.

CACIM.net movementsofmovements.net

I met him at the Peace and Justice Studies annual conference where we were both speakers.

"Movements, even for social justice, are often complex things, and sometimes have deep inversions that on the surface -- and especially in terms of history and of who writes it -- barely show."

Interview notes:

Definition of movement: Exercising, interrogating, deconstructing, influencing power

Power over vs Power to.

What is Civil Society: Bulwark of the state. The state is set up by civil society--the Bourgeoisie

What is Bourgeoisie

Incivil Society: Rebellious society made up of philosophers, artists, dancers

Don't use uncivil. It uses language of the people who exploit the word.

Parameters, dimensions of Movements:

-power

-inspiration for movements.

Movements are part of the web of life on mother earth.

I tie that to systems theory. Systems approach to movements

Ecosocialists international

Globalization has inspired a worldwide conservative populist backlash/blowback --Brazil, Phillipines, Trump,

Jai Sen, February 2006 - 'The World Social Forum as an Emergent Learning Process'. Final mss for article published in Futures vol 39 (January 2007), pp 505-522. Original available through subscription @ doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2006.10.006, and as free PDF @ ependent.academia.edu/JaiSen

Jai Sen, 2010 -- 'On open space : Explorations towards a vocabulary of a more open politics',

Interviews :

Possible topics :

• Well, given the overlap that there evidently is between what you are thinking and writing about ('Bottom-up Connection Consciousness' as a fundamental organising principle, and related questions) and what I'm thinking and writing about (movement as being a fundamental organising principle in life, as an integral part of and manifested in almost every field of human activity and thought; movement as an integral part of the web of life on Mother Earth; movement as being organic and biological and not just 'physical' or 'social'), I would think that we should use the opportunity to at least exchange thoughts on these respective approaches
• The World Social Forum as an emergent movement
• The concept and reality of 'open space' as a new concept in movement.

I think that this is about all I should suggest here. And where I think I have to now leave it to you to give the interview more shape. I would appreciate receiving at least a bullet-pointed list of issues / areas you'd like to cover, and at least a few days ahead of the interview so that I can get my mind focused on them.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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