BackHome
Refresh: OffView Personal Schedule
Session Submission Summary

Social movements and power in Latin America. Neoliberalism, Neo-patriarcalism, Neocolonialism

Sun, May 26, 2:15 to 3:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

Latin America has been, since the end of the last century, a vast laboratory for the construction of social movements. The strong social inequalities, deepened by neoliberal policies, gave rise to the constitution of multiple subjects of collective action. However, these movements have crossed themselves with demands and issues linked to other dimensions of social life. If, with decolonial theories, we assume that in our America class is not the only relevant variable of social differentiation and subordination, but that ethnicity must also be considered and of course also is gender, we could affirm that the established social, economic, political and cultural order has to be characterized at the same time as neoliberal, neocolonial and neo-patriarchal. These formations establish relations of domination and subalternity of classes, races and genders, but also give rise to possible resistance and the construction of popular alternatives. We will call such constructions 'popular' because they are born from subalternity and become in a form of resistance, as well as in laboratories of new forms of possible coexistence. From the Mexican Zapatismo to the feminist movement of the south of the continent, passing through different union movements, indigenous, peasants, popular economy and more, new forms of collective subjectivity are born into public life, which, while defining themselves, expand and shape new collective actors, but also new experiences of subjective training. In this workshop, we’ll present some of these experiences and try to propose a few conjectural conclusions about their rise, their present and their possible futures.

Sub Track

Session Organizer

Chair

Presenters