De la révolution à la mondialisation

The large-scale recent mobilizations throughout the world (2011 and after) are a striking illustration of a profound change in the forms and content of collective actions. There is a move from the ‘classical’ actors (States, nations, parties, trade unions, armed struggles and other movements directed and controlled by men) to more horizontal and less structured actors who resort to social networks on a large scale, combining the occupation of territories and symbolic locations with the creation of virtual and global spaces, in which women play a large role and which have a strong ethical component. The analyses offered of Latin America – in particular those of the new national-popular regimes sometimes described as ‘21st century revolutions’ – still frequently tend to be restricted to the first of these figures. However, over the past decades the region has witnessed a decline in armed struggles and revolutionary ruptures, dictatorships and authoritarian States while, at the same time, it has been projecting itself into the globalized flows. Latin America has often pioneered the emergence of networks in the age of information and communication: the Zapatista and other Indian movements, Porto Alegre and the alterglobal movement and the large-scale mobilizations of Latino migrants in the United States (2006). The recent demonstrations in Brazil which resonate which those which took place in Turkey, Spain, the United States and elsewhere all confirm this change of paradigm in Latin America

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• Néo-« développementisme » extractiviste, gouvernements et mouvements sociaux en Amérique latine

  Maristella Svampa•Problèmes d Amérique latine•2011

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