Quel devenir pour l’Etat, la nation, l’Etat-nation dans la Bolivie d’Evo Morales ? by Christine Delfour

“…What relationship between social movements, political parties and the State? How can avoid the threat of bipolarization?…”
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Crisis, poverty and hunger. Food sovereignty as an alternative by HIDALGO MORATAL, Moisés

“…In this context, we examine the alternative possibilities currently offered by food sovereignty, a concept that originates in international social movements and which has been found in the daily life of various rural areas, and is, at the same time, consistent with several critical theories originating from the academic world…”
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HIGHER EDUCATION AS A DEMAND AND AS A RESOURCE IN DISPUTE IN INTERETHNIC SPACES. AN ANALYSIS AT SALTA WICHÍ COMMUNITIES by Gloria Mancinelli

“…These demands are inscribed into the set educational claims proposing by Latin American indigenous social movements for the pluri-ethnic and pluri-linguistic conditions recognition of our country. …”
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The Rural Woman Speaks in 1970s Argentina by Julia Sarreal

“…In most of Latin America at the time, rural women were prevented from equal participation in social movements; in contrast, rural women in northeastern Argentina actively participated in the Movimiento Agrario Misionero (MAM). …”
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Kidnapping Politics in East Asia by Samuels, Richard J.

“…Consequently, kidnappings have opened up deep political chasms and often have been used by political actors to identify enemies, distill collective fears, clarify national deficiencies, redefine frontiers, and mobilize social movements. They have long figured in justifications for both aggression and conciliation with neighbors. …”
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Thailand's movement party: the evolution of the Move Forward Party by Laohabut, Thareerat, McCargo, Duncan

“…The existing literature on the relationship between political parties and social movements draws mainly from European cases, and has rarely captured the kinds of relationships that may exist in other parts of the world. …”
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Building the City of Women: creating a site of feminist resistance in a northern Colombian conflict zone by Zulver, JM

“…Despite a well-established tradition of studying women’s social movements in times of conflict, there is a lacuna when it comes to analysing feminism as a mobilisation strategy. …”

The Struggles for the Right to the City Across Spatial Scales: Experiences from Grand Belleville in Paris by Quentin Ramond, Claudio Pulgar

“… This article examines the diffusion process of social movements, placing emphasis on their geographical dimensions. …”
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Anti-Neoliberal Struggles in the 21st Century: Gramsci Revised by Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar

“…<span class="abs_content">The dominance of neoliberalism in the past three decades suggests the capacity of capitalism to adapt and restructure itself in periods of crisis and to curb progressive movements that threaten its hegemony. Yet social movements that challenge neoliberalism continue to emerge, sending hopeful signs of its potential demise by ushering in progressive governments that often appear to fall short of expectations. …”
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Membership in the digital era by Gabriella Scaramuzzino, Roberto Scaramuzzino

“…Drawing on theories on social movements, interest groups, and civil society organizations the article adopts a multi-dimensional perspective that understands membership as participation, resource, representativeness, and identity. …”
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Understanding Methodology of Fiqh Sosial by Umdatul Baroroh

“…I conducted this research through a literature study by exploring Kiai Sahal's writings as a primary source and analyzing them by collaborating with observations on social movements that he had carried out during his life. …”
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Editorial: Knowledge democracy for a transforming world by Budd Hall, Rajesh Tandon

“…This Introduction outlines our understanding of knowledge democracy, which can be expressed by a number of principles: (1) Recognition of a multiplicity of epistemologies and ways of knowing; (2) Openness to assembling, representing and sharing knowledge in multiple forms (including traditional academic formats and all manner of social and arts-based approaches); (3) Recognition that knowledge emerging from the daily lives of excluded persons is an essential tool for social movements and other transformational strategies; and the (4) Requirement to carefully balance the need to protect the ownership of communities’ knowledge with the need to share knowledge in a free and open access manner. …”
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“Our People Can’t Hold the Line!” by Minati Dash

“…This paper aims to understand how and why the processes of capital accumulation through dispossession cause fragmentation of social movements and their eventual petering out. I analyse the collective strikes that the villagers engaged in during 2008–2010, paralyzing the company’s incipient construction work over a tumultuous nine months. …”
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Alimentation et cancers. Personnes atteintes et autorités alternatives by Patrice Cohen, Emilie Legrand

“…These approaches continuing the “alternative food movement” are echoing contemporary social movements such as defense of free-choice in medical settings, ecological thought, medical counter-culture, anti-liberal protest, and anti-pharmaceutical and industrial food production lobbies. …”
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Au Québec, le patrimoine de la modernité, au défi de la mémoire collective  by France Vanlaethem

“…This cut-off time set by the law belittles the built heritage of innovative architecture of the 20th century, whose many elements were constructed in the 1960’s, while Quebec was undergoing major transformations with the “Révolution tranquille”, the Quiet Revolution. Social movements caused by urban renewal operations and their demolitions by the middle of the decade, as well as the failures of some major construction sites implementing concrete at the beginning of the next one, have they not left their imprint on the collective memory to such an extent that they have permanently marred the cultural value of the buildings from this time? …”
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Factors influencing trust in media: exploring the association between media consumption and news about the 15M Movement by Ariadna Fernández-Planells

“…Debate over consumer trust in traditional media has intensified due to theappearance of networked social movements, particularly considering media coverage ofthe protests, the emergence of alternative media and social media as informationsources. …”
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Evangelicals at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by Rene Urueña

“…As it turns forty, the Court faces a “spiritual” crisis: conservative religious movements have become one of its key interlocutors, with demands and expectations that compete with (but could also complement) those of other regional social movements. Difficult as it may be, the Court needs to be bold in creating argumentative spaces that allow for the Evangelical experience to exist in the public sphere in Latin America, in a context of respect for human rights in general, and for LGBTI rights in particular.…”
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Civil Society Between Repression and Cooptation: Adjusting to Shrinking Space in Cambodia by Jasmin Lorch

“…Concurrently, the existing research on civil society and social movements mostly suggests that civil society organisations (CSOs) will either resist autocratic repression or disband because of it, thereby often neglecting the possibility of CSOs’ adaptation to autocratic constraints. …”
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What the climate movement’s debate about disruption gets wrong by Kevin A. Young, Laura Thomas-Walters

“…They also often misinterpret the lessons of historical social movements. We reconsider one of those movements, the Birmingham civil rights campaign of 1963, in light of the current strategic debate. …”
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Conservative turn, milícias, and elections by Orlando Santos Junior, Filipe Corrêa, Juciano Rodrigues

“… Brazil is currently experiencing a conservative turn, which has found expression not only in Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency (2019–2022) but also in the phenomenon of so-called milícias expanding in low-income neighborhoods as well as in the emergence of anti-social movements that identify themselves as right-wing and conservative. …”
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