Dr Sara Motta discusses social movement in Latin America
Senior lecturer in Politics Dr Sara Motta, editor of the new edition of Latin American Perspectives, Reinventing the Lefts from Below, recently appeared on a podcast discussing social movements in Latin America. Dr Motta argues that these movements (which include occupied factors movement in Argentina, water movements in Bolivia, the Movimento Sem Terra from Brazil amongst others) are transgressing traditional left conceptualizations of popular political subjectivities and the nature of political and social change. This presents a theoretical, methodological and epistemological challenge to critically engaged scholars. This issue responds to this challenge by developing empirically rich and theoretically innovative contributions which co-create knowledge for and by those excluded from and on the margins of political power and theory production, speaking from the placed body or the particular and thus from the experience of oppression and fostering the emergence of subjects historically rejected and ignored by capitalist colonial modernity. This issue will be of interest to those interested in exploring the contours and possibilities for a reinvented left emancipatory politics in Latin American and beyond.
Find out more about Dr Motta by visiting her profile page.