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New Ways of Making and Living Politics: The Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados de Solano and the ‘Movement of Movements’
Author(s) -
MOTTA SARA C.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00268.x
Subject(s) - silence , subjectivity , social movement , politics , sociology , latin americans , democracy , political subjectivity , movement (music) , epistemology , social science , political science , philosophy , aesthetics , law
This article develops a critique of liberal and social democratic conceptualisations of the political that seek to analyse contemporary social movements in Latin America, arguing that they often silence, misinterpret and/or de‐legitimise new ways of living and making politics in the region. It develops an alternative conceptualisation, based upon the insights of post‐structuralism and heterodox Marxism, which offers the analytic means to engage more fully with territorialised movements that politicise place, subjectivity and everyday social relations. It illustrates the potential use of such a framework with reference to the Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados de Solano of Greater Buenos Aires.