Prefigurative politics of Latin America popular movements. Towards a new matrix of intellection for the social sciences

The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the put forward by the Latin-American social movements, with the purpose of confronting it with some of the concrete experiences that exist in Latin...

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Autor: Ouviña, Hernán
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Acta Sociológica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/44101
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/44101
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social movements
prefigurative politics
praxis
Latin America
social protest
Social Sciences.
Movimientos sociales
política prefigurativa
América Latina
protesta social
Ciencias Sociales.
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Sumario:The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the put forward by the Latin-American social movements, with the purpose of confronting it with some of the concrete experiences that exist in Latin America. After defining prefigurative politics as a set of practices and social relations that, in the present moment, “anticipate” the germs of a future society, it is fundamented why this category might constitute a pertinent notion to approach this new processes, in which social movements emerge as a weighty collective actor by installing in the public agenda certain claims and demands, and influencing state institutions, but without their integration or subsumption to their government structures.