The social movement

Historical insights and conceptual

Abstract

At the end of the 1990s and in the past decade, the emergence of social movements in Latin America registered an unprecedented boom. The "Social Movements" became increasingly relevant for their role as subjects of transformation, especially in Latin America, called the region of hope for the movement of its society in resistance, in continuous search, strong, present, that shakes powers, that generates victories in its struggle, that overthrows governments and that sustains others. Social movements erupt everywhere, in all corners and political scenarios.

However, this led to many questions. There is a latent and permanent discussion in networks, meetings, spaces, summits, and forums of all kinds, on what is the "Social Movement"? And, even though on many occasions his answer is ignored, we cannot avoid this question and whose implicit or explicit answer is the occasion of ruptures, of diverse alliances, of exclusive judgments of those who seem to have the ultimate truth; of disputes over their property, or competitions for different ways of being and in the struggle for transformation and the search for other anti-systemic, anti-capitalist ways of life.