¿Puede el Estado hacer de la agroecología un fenómeno masivo? Experiencias de políticas públicas en América Latina by Omar Felipe Giraldo, Nils McCune

“…Although the cases studied show that it is possible to open spaces and moments of rupture within the regimes of power, we believe that there is a risk when the efforts of social movements end up absorbed in collaborations with the State. …”
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Evolution of green chemistry and its multidimensional impacts: A review by Bianca Aparecida de Marco, Bárbara Saú Rechelo, Eliane Gandolpho Tótoli, Ana Carolina Kogawa, Hérida Regina Nunes Salgado

“…Since the 1940s, social movements have revolutionized green chemistry and provided shifts in industrial positions and sustainable processes with advances in environmental impact and awareness of companies and population. …”
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EXPO 2015 as a Laboratory for Neoliberalization. Great Exhibitions, Urban Value Dispossession and New Labor Relations by Emanuele Leonardi, Michelangelo Secchi

“…Starting from the critical urban theory premise that neoliberalization is necessarily a spatial project, the features of urban space production set in motion by the World Fair are analyzed by paying particular attention to the ways in which social movements framed such transformations and eventually mobilized in reaction to them. …”
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Terra, poder e violência: conflitos no Mato Grosso do Sul e a relação do agronegócio com os Kaiowá e Guarani by Daniel Macedo Lopes Vasques Monteiro

“…It is worth noting that in addition to the bibliographic review, research was done on news and social movements sites that contribute to the debate about the violence that occurs in the land dispute. …”
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The Narrative of Militancy: A Case Study of Swat, Pakistan by Qasim Ali Shah, Bahadar Nawab, Ingrid Nyborg, Noor Elahi

“…The study concludes that the formulation and popularization of social narratives play vital roles in social movements and conflicts to muster popular support for promoting vested interests that can be used against the state and general public.…”
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Adversarial Linkages: The Urban Poor and Electoral Politics in Jakarta by Amalinda Savirani, Edward Aspinall

“…This article examines how social movements based in poor communities make electoral alliances with politicians in contemporary Indonesia. …”
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A transnational agri-food system for whom? The struggle for hegemony at Rio+20 by Yuna Fontoura, Zareen Pervez Bharucha, Steffen Böhm

“…We demonstrate that international NGOs and grassroots social movements are very diverse in how they approach the question of food security, which in turn is reflected in how they vary in their approach to doing politics. …”
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Authoritarian liberalism and the transformation of modern europe: Rejoinder by Michael A. Wilkinson

“…Although it is contested by social movements in the 1960’s and 70’s, it is ultimately reinforced in the turn to neoliberalism. …”
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The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy by Francesco Laruffa

“…The second approach, mostly embraced by heterodox academics and social movements, involves a deeper social-ecological transformation which attempts to lower the priority of economic growth and employment. …”
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Dialectics of Democracy and Development and its Relation to Political Action of Ethnicities in Iran by Mahdi Abdollahi Ziyaedini, ALi Morshedi Zad

“…The research method is a qualitative comparative-historical that is used in the theoretical framework of Charles Tilly's social movements to explain two democracy and developmental components. …”
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Conflitos ambientais em Minas Gerais: exploração da água na microrregião de São Lourenço by Eder Jurandir Carneiro, Mauro Francisco da Costa Assis

“…For this data surveys were conducted in the archives of the Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais (MPMP), as well in interviews and workshop with social movements engaged in struggles for environmental justice in the middleregion south-southwest of Minas Gerais where is located the microregion of São Lourenço. …”
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Towards a “new” peasant question in Argentina? by Julia L. Colla, Sebastián Valverde

“…Then, we present six theses that cut across the current social experiences of family farmers: social decomposition and exclusion; the eco-territorial turn; the emergence of social movements; re-ethnicization; agroecology and food sovereignty, and statehood. …”
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A dissident archive: emergence and dissemination of sexual dissidence in Chilean student movement between 2008 and 2018 by Sergio Fiedler, Cristeva Cabello

“…It is concluded that the practices of sexual dissent and activism understand social movements as a direct political result of encounters and interaction between bodies and affections and whose street performativity questions the forms of heteropatriarchal political action in the context of neoliberalism in Chile. …”
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Le périurbain, terre d’engagement des classes moyennes : retour critique sur « “Et tout, le monde, déteste la métropole ?” Entretien avec la critique sociale » by Elodie Dupuit

“…focuses on urban social movements fighting metropolises and the process of metropolization. …”
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Participação social, Estado e direitos de minorias: a conformação democrática de políticas públicas para a população LGBTI+ no Brasil by Hebert de Paula Giesteira Villela, Éder Rodrigo Gimenes

“…To this end, it exposes bibliographical research that dealt with social participation, participatory institutions and, specifically, the relationship between participation, social rights and public policies for LGBTI+, with emphasis on the theoretical debate about the existence of waves of development both of social movements and struggles and of access to social rights and achievement of public policies. …”
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Gender Studies. Barriers and Contributions to the Theoretical International Debate from the Voices of the Other Women by Lídia Puigvert Mallart, Beatriz Muñoz

“…Their participation in the social movements of the neighbourhood has favoured the transformation of their context through the incorporation of their claims. …”
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Por uma conceitualização sociopolítica dos direitos humanos a partir da experiência latino-americana by Ariadna Estévez

“…<br>A Latin American conceptualization of human rights would be sociopolitical rather than legal as the major contribution of the region to discourse has been its philosophy of action and the practice of social movements inspired by this philosophy. This article proposes a way to conceptualize human rights that recovers the historical legacy of social struggles from a discursive perspective, relying in particular on ideas of genealogy and intertextuality.…”
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Amazonia as Territory: Poder & Potencia in Pará by Benjamin Kantner, Hugo Lopes Tavares

“…The interplay between poder and potencia becomes evident throughout the modern history of Brazilian development initiatives, interventions by capital, and social movements organized by traditional peoples. Territories of poder and potenica in the Brazilian Amazon draw from this history of dialectic territorializations which finds contemporary form in knowledge discourses and resource politics. …”
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The conditions of possibility of land occupations by Lygia Sigaud, David Alan Rodgers

“…It concludes by turning to South Africa where land invasions - conceived by social movements as the best procedure for obtaining land distribution from the Government - have failed to attain the same scale of results. …”
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COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD: ISSUES RAISED IN BRAZILIAN STUDIES WITHIN THE LATIN CARIBBEAN CONTEXT by Claudionor Renato da Silva

“…The study concludes by advocating for a greater dialogue/partnership of Brazilian researchers with researchers of research centers in LA and the Ca, including the active coordination with social movements and political parties from Brazilian cities to the State and the federal levels, so as to formulate public policies on CSE in Early Childhood Education.…”
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