Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements

• Autores: Diane Davis, Taylor Davey
• Localización: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements / coord. por Federico M. Rossi, 2023, ISBN 9780190870362, págs. 678-695
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Social movements have played a central role in guiding political developments across Latin America for decades. Which particular groups have led the struggle, with that mobilization strategies and aims, and in which territorial spaces have shifted over time. In contrast to the period between the 1970s and 1990s, when cities hosted a preponderance of social movements clamoring for regime change in Latin America, by the 2000s mobilizations were as likely to emerge in rural as urban areas and to focus on regional livelihoods and conditions. Likewise, when democratization produced new political institutions for claim-making, movements began to use decentralized participatory processes to demand services, infrastructure, and public goods, participating in formal state politics more than challenging them. As movements focused less on regime change and more on everyday conditions, new forms of contestation emerged, with activists adopting spatial tactics to challenge or disrupt conditions and using these strategies as symbolic expressions of dissatisfaction as much as a means for demanding remedial action from the state. This chapter documents and accounts for historical changes in the geography and spatial tactics of Latin America social movements. Drawing on general trends across the region, it identifies new repertories of mobilization, links them to changing social, political, and economic conditions, and assesses the significance of these shifts for both the theory and practice of social mobilization in contemporary Latin America.