Emancipatory practices in pandemic contexts: (re)productive alternatives and popular educations from rural movements

Abstract

During the academic work in confinement, Latin American analytical and research exchanges have not stopped in order to understand the evolution of rural social movements in the context of the pandemic. This essay is the product of dialogues between members of three CLACSO working groups from Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Uruguay. The objective is to reflect on the political, productive and formative practices that rural movements carried out during the months immediately following the declaration of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus. In them, the central role of women, youth, children, peasants, indigenous and afro-descendants organized to overcome the difficulties of the civilizational crisis, marked by deep inequalities that were exacerbated in times of pandemic.

Keywords

• social movements
• pandemic
• rural worlds
• alternatives
• popular education.