Social Movements and Democracy: Forms of the Political

Abstract

In this work, I will develop the hypothesis about how since the last years of 20th century in Latin America there has been many social and political movements that interpellated Latin-American neoliberal democracies (1997-2007). The emergency of this social and political movements represented the main contribution for us, intellectuals to be able start thinking in a different way and to get free from our own files about political philosophy which had classical European shapes that had us caught in insufficient categories to understand our own contexts. Such as the duality between public/private; society/state; civil society/political society; citizenship/democracy.

Keywords

• movimientos sociales
• democracia
• sujetos políticos
• heterogeneidad social