Rethinking Social Movements and Territorial Struggles in Latin America New Political Languages and Collective Horizons

Introduction

Pabel López, Gisela Hadad and Miguel González

Part 1: Re-emergence of the Collective Action and Current Critical Approaches to Thinking about Them

 1. Rethinking Social Movements Struggles Against Extractivism and Capital in Times of Transition

Leandro Vergara-Camus

2. Brazil: A long time decline of social movements?,

Alessandro Peregalli & Salvador Schavelzon 

3. El Retorno del Otro: Framing strategy alterations of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement in the shadow of Correísmo

Rickard Lalander, Philipp Altmann & Magnus Lembke

4. The Territorial Dimension of Social Movements in Contemporary Argentina: Perspectives and Debates from the South of the South

Gisela Hadad & Juan Wahren

5. Communication as counter-power in Latin American indigenous activism: a case study

 Miguel Rodríguez Guerrero & Evaristo Barrera Algarín

Part 2: Socio-Territorial Movements and Struggles for 'Territories of Life'

 6. Blended finance, Development Finance Institutions and Financial Intermediaries: The Struggle for Territorial Autonomy in Honduras

Karen Spring & Susan Spronk

7. Care and acuerpamiento – Rethinking socio-territorial struggles in Latin -America through migration

Anastasia Kromberg Landeros

8. Urban socio-territorial movements: building territories for life in Buenos Aires-Argentina. The Movement of renters and occupiers (MOI)

Fernanda Torres and Sam Halvorsen

9. Territorial sensibilities and social mobilization in socio-environmental conflicts in the Southern Chilean coasts

Juan Pablo Paredes, Alejandro Retamal Maldonado y César Pérez Guarda

10. Collective action reconfiguration and socio-ecological movements in the Andean-Amazon region: About eco-crisis and territorial re-existences in Bolivia

Pabel Camilo Lopez Flores

 Part 3: Eco-Territorial Feminisms and the Role of Latin American Women as/in Current Social Movements 

 11. The role of women in Mapuche resurgences against extractivism in Vaca Muerta, northern Patagonia, Argentina: Dialogues from the Territory

Melisa Cabrapan Duarte

12. Roots of Resistance: Experiences of Territorial Ecofeminisms in Argentina and Their Role in the Sustainability of Everyday Life and Socio-Environmental Justice (2000–2023)

Soledad Fernández Bouzo, Noelia Manso and Lucía Sayapin

13. The Lesser Evil: Indigenous Women’s Battle between Adaptive Resistance and Re-Existence in the Bolivian Amazon

Sebastián Caballero Paz

14. Hydrofeminist counter-cartographies: Bodies subordinated by the coloniality of water in central-south Chile

María Ignacia Ibarra & Maite Hernando-Arrese

15. The cuerpo-territorio of disappearances and performative searches across borders

Linn Maria Biörklund

Part 4: Transversal considerations and horizons of social struggles: between the common, intersectionality, and autonomy beyond "development"

 16. Reflections on the Zapatista concept of el común and its reverberations for contemporary social movements

Mariana Mora

17. From Activism to Repression: The Shrinking Space for Indigenous and Afro-descendant Social Movements in Contemporary Central America

Miguel Gonzalez

18. “The commons are ourselves”: Ontologies of governance of gathering commons in the coastal areas of south-central Chile

Beatriz Cid-Aguayo and Noelia Carrasco Henríquez

19. Territory is Law: Metamorphoses of Territoriality and Ecological Collective Agency in Amazonia

Iván Darío Vargas-Roncancio

20. A Pluriverse Built in Hell: Bolivian forest fires and the emergence of autonomisations toward a life-centric politics from below

Eleonoora Karttunen

Conclusions

Miguel González, Gisela Hadad and Pabel López

Biography

Pabel López is Associate Researcher with the Postgraduate Program in Development Studies, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés CIDES-UMSA, Bolivia and ex-distinguished researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Sevilla, IEALC-US, Spain.

Gisela Hadad is Professor in Rural Sociology and Social Movement theory at the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, and Assistant Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (IIGG), both at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Miguel González is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Coordinator of the International Development Studies program at York University, Canada.