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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]

The aim of the paper is to offer an analysis of the role of emotions in Mexican environmental conflicts. Based on fieldwork in the state of Jalisco (Mexico), where we have carried out in-depth interviews with members of three self-organized collectives which are defending their territories, and following the sociological framework on emotions and protest, we will show the role of emotions 1) in a repressive context, 2) in the construction of collective identity, as well as 3) in the organizational and strategic choices. Our proposal aims to highlight the internal dynamics of environmental activism in Mexico through a sociological lens in which the emotional dimension of the protest matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the usage of the body in practices of social protest and its link with art and activism; these practices are contextualized within the protests and demonstrations for Ayotzinapa. This approach assumes that the body that protests is an "extended body", a subject with the capacity for agency in social life; this capacity is exercised through its collective expression. Specific cases are discussed in dancistic actions executed by members from the Asamblea de la Comunidad Artística, in the political and cultural occupation of the Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, which can be considered as strategies of artistic activism (artivism) with the intention of elucidating how, when "the body is being put" to protest, artistic and aesthetic experiences are produced. [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]

This paper debates the traditional notions of political transnationalism used in the United States by showing the formation and the activist process followed by the #YoSoy132 movement in New York City. The conclusion drawn is that immigrants organizations in the US have diversified their acting repertories, political perspective and their demands. Therefore, it is necessary to broaden the concept of political transnationalism to a social-political perspective. The latter will allow having a wider theoretical notion to analyze a larger number of immigrants organizations in the US. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In October 2001, the federal government issued nineteen expropriating decrees in order to build a new airport in Texcoco, Estado de Mexico. Against this decision, a group of peasants ("ejidatarios") and dwellers from several communities set up the social movement of Ateneo. In this paper, we will analyze the interpretative dimension of the atenquense struggle, and the relevance of the experience in the constitutive process of this collective actor. In order to achieve this objective, we will consider some theoretical coordinates from the marxist historian E. P. Thompson, Barrington Moore and the framing theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]