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The movement of indigenous persons with disabilities has chosen at the international level an intersectional strategy aiming at bridging discourses between the indigenous movement, the persons with disabilities movement and the women' movement has been put forward at the international level. This article analyses the effectiveness of this strategy for reducing structural inequality at the international, national and local levels. Trough interviews with indigenous activists with disabilities and international stakeholders this paper builds up a case study on the Indigenous Persons with disabilities Global Network. Findings show that the intersectional strategy for reducing inequality has been more useful at the international level, rather than at the national and community level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to give an account about the most relevant critical positions on classic universalism. For this purpose, we explain the meaning of universalism’s crisis and that of the abstract universal. We mention the topical redefinition of the concept of universal made by Badiou, Balibar and Žižek, who attempt to overcome the universal/particular dichotomy. We briefly explain the perspective of Spivak, Butler and Laclau who propose to think an anti-totalitarian universal. Finally we refer to the Butler’s interpretation about the universal with regard to social movements. In the conclusion we hold the necessity of keep thinking the universality by considering this concept as an indispensable dimension for any project that includes social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article departs from political economy in order to engage critically with the role currently played by communication and culture in wider neoliberal processes of territorial redefinition and urban marketing. The text addresses recent videoactivism practices within new urban movements in Spain during the last few years as a response to such processes, foregrounding the tensions that pervade spaces of cultural resistance where conflict, difference and contradiction are still, nonetheless, possible. Our analysis attempts to make sense of interaction patterns between new forms of citizenship and the appropriation of public space through elements of self-organization seeking to reconnect with more complex patterns of urban sociability still at play in our cities. KEY WORDS. Videoactivism, urban marketing, democracy, social movements, cognitive capitalism. social and analytic relevance. Finally, following Luhmann's theory, the paper proposes an analytic framework to study religious organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes to cinsider the migrant struggles as a new field in sociology that ponders over the collective action. This work is an exercise that focuses on struggles led by migrants with or without legal documents. Thus, this emerging social movement can be deciphered. Also, the main actors, practices and normative or political projects of these struggles, as well as the exact role they play on the map of current dissent, are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]