Maristella Svampa She is a sociologist and writer. Live in Buenos Aires. Senior Researcher at Conicet, tenured professor at the National University of La Plata. He received the Platinum Konex Prize in Sociology (2016) and the National Prize for Sociological Essay (2018). She defines herself as an amphibian intellectual and a Patagonian who thinks in a Latin American way. His themes are the socio-ecological crisis, social movements and social theory. He has written numerous essays and novels. His latest books include Farm 51. Return to Patagonia in the times of fracking (2018) and The frontiers of neo-extractivism in Latin America (2018), published in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German, and recently The ecological collapse has already arrived. A compass to get out of (bad) development (together with Enrique Viale, September 2020).

Discrepancias

Social outbreak in latin america and the caribbean: breakdowns, resistance and uncertainties. COVID-19’s challenges

  • Breno Bringel
  • Heriberto Cairo
  • Maristella Svampa

  • moderator Jaime Preciado

In this edition, the Discrepancies section intends to address the triggers of the social upheaval of 2019 in Latin America, its scope and limitations in the formation of the social subject, its instituting processes, destituyentes or constituents under various imaginary collective-community on parties, social movements or political regimes.