social movements

Migrations, collective action and coloniality of knowledge in the field of Spanish academia: male and female migrants as invisible/invisibilized political subjects

Alberto Arribas Lozano, University of the Witwatersrand, Sudáfrica

Tags: collective action, coloniality of knowledge, Migration studies, social movements

Black marxists or Black marxisms? A decolonial view

Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Tags: collective action, coloniality of knowledge, Migration studies, social movements

The Red Thread. The revolt against the Aznar Government following the attacks of March 11, 2004

Pablo Iglesias Turrión pabloiglesias@cps.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España) Abstract: In this article we will analyze some aspects of the popular revolt against the Spanish Government in Madrid on 13th March 2004, after the Al Qaeda attacks. We will explain how that revolt was not just a national or local event, but a systemic crisis […]

Tags: civil disobedience, collective action, global movement, global war, NTIC, social movements, spatial process

The Resurrection of the Public Intellectual? New Spaces for Public Intervention and the Collective Intellectual

Ulrich Oslender Ulrich.Oslender@ges.gla.ac.uk Department of Geographical & Earth Sciences University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK) Abstract: In this paper I engage with current debates over the role of the public intellectual in a world shaped by re-emerging binary thinking and old dualisms in new disguise. As some see “new public intellectuals” emerging in critical Geography, I […]

Tags: anti-Semitism, Bernard-henri lévy, collective intellectual, domination, media, Pierre Bourdieu, resistance to neo-liberalism, social movements, World Social Forum

The Return of Túpac Katari – Bolivia and Global Transformation Processes of Capitalism

Iñigo Errejón Galván ierrejon@cps.ucm.es University of California, Los Angeles, USA Jesús Espasandín López chusespasandin@yahoo.es Universidad Complutense, España Pablo Iglesias Turrión pi211@cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge, UK Abstract: The electoral victory in 2005 of the Socialist Movement headed by Eva Morales had a worldwide significance. In this article, we will hold that the political events in Bolivia […]

Tags: Analysis of world-systems, constitutional power, indianism, social movements, systemic opportuntity structures

Rethinking the Geopolitics of Knowledge: A Challenge to Imperial Visions

David Slater d.slater@lboro.ac.uk Loughborough University, UK Abstract: The global objective of these exploratory notes is to open the debate about certain important aspects of the intersections between power, knowledge and geopolitics, and doing so in the context of the resurgence of imperial visions and the urgent need for a decolonialization of the imagination. The analytical terrain […]

Tags: critical thinking, geopolitics, indians movements - Latin America, power/knowledge, social movements

Revising The Rules Of The Game: A Conversation With Pablo Iglesias Turrion, Jesús Espasandín López and Iñigo Errejón Galván

Walter D. Mignolo walter.mignolo@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: This article is a response to the discussions that developed in the summer seminars at the Complutense University in Escorial in June of 2006. I have condensed the answers into two topics that I think are the axes around which the debate took place: the exteriority […]

Tags: 1941 -- Philosophy thought, decolonial thought and option, exteriority, geopolitics of knowledge, indians movements - Latin America, Mignolo, objectivity and obedience (both epistemic and political), objectivity without parenthesis (epistemic and political disobedience), pluriversity, social movements, Walter D.

Indigeneity: Problematics, experiences and agen- das in the new millenium

Marisol de la Cadena University of California Davis y Orin Starn ostarn@duke.edu Universidad de Duke, Durham, USA Abstract: In this article we historicized the idea of indigenous and the notion of indigeneity. As a relationship, as a discursive formation, rather than as an identity, indigeneity involves not only indigenous people, but also people identified themselves […]

Tags: diáspora, indigeneity, indigenizing essentialism, indigenous rights, social movements

Social Movements and the Politics of the Vir- tual. Deleuzian Strategies

Arturo Escobar aescobar@email.unc.edu Michal Osterweil osterwei@email.unc.edu University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Abstract: This paper offers a first approach to read contemporary social movements from Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective. This approach can be situated in several trends in postconstructivist social sciences towards what Mexican researcher Manuel de Landa has called “flat ontologies” (theories of […]

Tags: de landa, Deleuze and Guattari, deterritorialization/territorialization, flat ontologies, social movements

Back to the exotic

Antón Fernández de Rota anton@invisibel.net Universidade da Corunha, España Abstract: In this paper I intend to re-conceptualize alterity and the “exotic” following the Foucaultian archeological and genealogical approaches to l’homme notion. I aim to discuss the possibilities of an anthropology of the contemporary in order to create a critical project, taking anthropos in a nominalistic […]

Tags: anthropology, anthropos, exotic, social movements

Between Indianness, Blackness, and Incaness: The Spatial Hierarchies of Difference Behind Peru’s Multicultural Curtain

Shane Greene lsgreene@indiana.edu Indiana University, USA Abstract: This article examines the trials and tribulations of a recent state-led program of afro-indigenous multiculturalism in Peru within a much broader intellectual history of the nation, its regions, and the ideologies that govern them. In contrast to broadly comparative accounts of afro-descendant and indigenous politics at the regional […]

Tags: Afro-Peruvians, indigenous peoples, multiculturalism, Perú, social movements

Of failure and frustration in field work —how to assume the ethics of representation in participatory research

Abstract: Collaborative research is back on the agenda these days. It has certainly become more accepted in mainstream academia than back in the 1970s, when Orlando Fals Borda and others developed what came to be known as Participatory Action-Research (PAR). Research councils are increasingly interested in funding collaborative research proposals, seemingly willing to listen to […]

Tags: AfroColombia, black communities, chance, décimas, Fals Borda, geopolitics, Guapi, Methodology, oral tradition, Participatory Action-Research (PAR), political geography, social movements

Of structured movements and moving structures. An overview of theoretical perspectives on social movements

Willem Assies, CEDLA, The Netherlands

Tags: Latin America, marxism, post-marxism., social movements, urban movements

A tribute to Willem Assies (1954-2010): reflections on his contribution to peasant and indigenous studies

Cristóbal Kay, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands

Tags: agrarian and peasant studies, indigenous peoples, Latin America, multicultural citizenship, multiethnic state, plurinational democracy, social movements, Willem Assies