Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA?
This article examines social movements and their experiences of struggle in the processes of trade liberalisation that have taken place in Latin America since the early 1990s to the present day. This has been a construction process of transnational collective action in which each experience has se...
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
2014-04-01
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| description | This article examines social movements and their experiences of struggle in the processes of trade liberalisation that have taken place in Latin America since the early 1990s to the present day. This has been a construction process of transnational collective action in which each experience has served to innovate the preceding one, until an alliance of continental and multisectoral scope was constituted. However, this learning process has not been linear; instead it has experienced both steps forward and setbacks, and its moments of progress have depended, to a great extent, on the capacity of the members of these networks to identify global capital as their enemy in the conflict. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17cb0108f5f64a4485949ab3f57c838e2022-12-22T02:10:05ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals1133-65952013-035X2014-04-01105191214Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA?Mercedes Botto0Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Universidad de Buenos Aire (UBA)This article examines social movements and their experiences of struggle in the processes of trade liberalisation that have taken place in Latin America since the early 1990s to the present day. This has been a construction process of transnational collective action in which each experience has served to innovate the preceding one, until an alliance of continental and multisectoral scope was constituted. However, this learning process has not been linear; instead it has experienced both steps forward and setbacks, and its moments of progress have depended, to a great extent, on the capacity of the members of these networks to identify global capital as their enemy in the conflict.http://www.cidob.org/en/publicaciones/articulos/revista_cidob_d_afers_internacionals/105/los_movimientos_sociales_y_el_libre_comercio_en_america_latina_que_hay_despues_del_alcasocial movementsfree trade agreementscollective actionLatin America |
| spellingShingle | Mercedes Botto Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals social movements free trade agreements collective action Latin America |
| title | Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? |
| title_full | Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? |
| title_fullStr | Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? |
| title_short | Social movements and free trade in Latin America: what comes after ALCA? |
| title_sort | social movements and free trade in latin america what comes after alca |
| topic | social movements free trade agreements collective action Latin America |
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