Invited Session - Cuerpo, violencia y cultura: actualización de las subjetividades políticas en América Latina I

Session Submission Type: Featured/Invited Session

Abstract

Throughout the lead year of the first stage of neoliberal policies, Latin American autonomous social movements organized through rhizomatic networks against dispossessing and destructive glocal policies. As the economy in the region deteriorated, and violence aroused, social practices changed, giving rise on the one hand to a “pirate culture” of fake commodities that disrupts the corporate market, and on the other hand, to a diversity of movements and practices. These movements changed the way politics were made in the region as they engaged in direct actions, emphasizing gender, class and ethnic issues while providing a space for the creation and performance of new subjectivities. Horizontal approaches, and communal experiences were enacted from very different situations of exclusion and violence as a diversity of social movements performed their future politics, allowing for the emergence of novel subjectivities.

Sub Track

• Invited Panels

Session Organizers

• Margara Millán Moncayo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

• Graciela G Monteagudo, UMass Amherst, STPEC

Chair

• Margara Millán Moncayo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Individual Presentations

• New subjectivities: building “compañerismo” in the movement and at home - Graciela G Monteagudo, UMass Amherst, STPEC

• Mexican Free Radios and the Production of Insurgent Subjectivity - Jeffrey S Juris, Northeastern University

• Luchas por lo común contra el cercamiento y despojo capitalista de los bienes comunes naturales en México - Mina Lorena L Navarro Trujillo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

• Colonization and Resistance: The making of indigenous subjectivities in Mexico and India - Vasundhara Jairath, Research Scholar