State and Social Movements: Identities, Crosses and Strategies in Tension in Latin America

Authors

  • Hernán Fair CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v11i2.3645

Keywords:

State and society, social and popular movements, political identities, hegemonic struggle, radical democracy

Abstract

This article analyzes the crosses between social movements and State in Latin America. It focuses on a series of tensions in the identities and strategies of social and popular movements and progressive governments: socialist struggle-capitalist relations of production, commodification-decommodification, horizontal participation-vertical representation, articulatory strategies-particularist strategies. In the second part, it analyses the problems of ultra-particularist strategies and binary conceptions and the role of the State in the hegemonic dispute. In the last part, it examines the limits and contradictions of some progressive governments in the region to radicalize and expand participatory democracy, strengthen the modes of communitarian self-management and popular power, promote decommodification and move towards a democratic socialism.

Author Biography

  • Hernán Fair, CONICET

    Argentino. Doctor en Ciencias Sociales (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Investigador Adjunto del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) con sede de trabajo en el instituto IESAC de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina). Profesor en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina).

Published

2021-07-13

Issue

Section

Artículos

How to Cite

“State and Social Movements: Identities, Crosses and Strategies in Tension in Latin America”. 2021. Revista Rupturas 11 (2): 111-30. https://doi.org/10.22458/rr.v11i2.3645.