Network and Territory as the Socio-political Practice Content of Collective Action

Abstract

The main idea proposed in this text is to defend and to show that the two of the most discussed and operationalized categories of geographical knowledge analysis have been increasingly driven as a strategic resource of the collective actions, a situation that allows us to consider them not only as analytical categories, but also as content of social-political practice. This idea derives from the way the two notions have been operationalized by the collective actions as an organization strategy, functioning and effectiveness of its purpose. The evidence of this phenomenon manifestation can be observed in the social practices of organized social groups over which we have leaned to understand, basically, unions, associations and central unions. After some introductory notes, we will seek to demonstrate how the network idea takes on a propositional feature and an instrumental nature to collective action. Then our movement is to investigate how the notion of territory assumes a position of centrality in the various social actors strategies. At the end, we will develop our conclusive argument in orderto protect the network and the territory as categories of socio-political practices of collective action to protect the network and the territory as categories of socio-political practices of collective action.

Keywords

• Network
• Territory
• Collective actions