Articles about "(dis) empowerment"

Coloquios interdisciplinarios

Comment to the colloquium "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
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The antagonism of the struggles in defense of life as a process of re-politicization of the social in Latin America. A dialogue with Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz

  • Lorena Navarro Trujillo Mine

Keywords: (dis) empowerment, social antagonism, socio-environmental conflict, extractivism, struggles in defense of life, Re-politicization of the social.

Wn this text I present a commentary on the essay "Inequalities and the re-politicization of the social in Latin America" by Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz. Based on the critical approach that the author proposes to the processes of re-politicization of the social and (dis)empowerment, provoked by the profound mutations of the (neo)liberal order, I make an exercise of dialogue, expansion and feedback in terms of conflicts and collective responses, with transforming longings and possibilities in contexts of socio-environmental conflict. In particular, I present some traces of the social antagonism of community struggles in defense of life in the face of the extractivist offensive on territories and livelihoods.