1. El subsuelo de lo político: Sustratos sociales, culturales, comunicacionales y tecnológicos de la acción colectiva en América Latina en el siglo XXI.
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VILLARREAL VELÁSQUEZ, José Antonio and RESCHER, Gilberto
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COLLECTIVE action -- Social aspects , *COMMUNICATION & society , *MASS mobilization ,21ST century Latin American politics & government - Abstract
The special issue attempts to contribute to the current discussions on the configuration of the political in Latin America. From the social sciences, we seek to discuss those “enigmas” related to the cultural, social, communicational, and technological logics of political events, as well as to the systems of knowledge rooted in those actors that participate in contemporary political processes. Drawing inspiration from Bolivian philosopher Luis Tapia’s (2008) notion political subsoil, and making a slight variation of it, the special issue develops the category the subsoil of the political. We use the subsoil of the political as a category of analysis, and not as an object of study. As a category of historical, social and political analysis, the subsoil of the political serves to understand, from a transdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective, the various forms of interaction through which the boundaries between the social and the political are (de)constructed. From the subsoil of the political, we seek to understand how cultural, communicational, spatial and technological elements flow, articulate (under different forms and scales) and acquire meaning, and integrate a substrate never fixed. From this substrate, groups, movements and actors sometimes represented as marginal or minority, but politically meaningful during the last two decades in the Latin American region, trigger processes and dynamics of social and societal mobilization, which are the focus of this dossier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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