GLOBALIZACIÓN Y (RE) LOCALIZACIÓN: SUS EFECTOS EN LAS SOCIEDADES RURALES LATINOAMERICANAS

The phenomenon of globalization is an inescapable topic in the analysis of the socio-economic, political and cultural transformations that have taken place over the last decades. Although it is a concept that since its emergence has been subject to a wide range of approaches and interpretations, most of the meanings tend to emphasize the homogenizing dimension of the phenomenon to the detriment of the differentiating effects resulting from its interaction with very specific aspects of the territory, such as physical-natural characteristics, the development of historical processes and the assimilation of its process by local actors. The paper takes up the conceptual categories of "localization" and "re-localization" in order to analyze from a critical perspective the complex dynamics through which the globalizing and localizing processes interact to produce new identities, forms of organization, life strategies, struggles for space and power, and new cultural and knowledge repertoires in Latin American rural areas. As a result of a documentary review, it is argued that the emerging features that characterize contemporary rural societies, as well as their diverse and novel forms of organization, are expressions of such processes.