Popular political horizons in Latin American territorial struggles

from the communitarian-popular to the national-popular in their confluences and divergences

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https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.137196

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Territorial struggles in Latin America have shaped important indigenous and peasant socio-territorial movements that, in the construction of their popular political horizons, enunciate a profound transformation of reality at different scales of action. These are struggles that, throughout their history, show diverse confluences with respect to the territorial political project they promote, while at the same time containing significant and historical difference in the construction of paths to emancipation. Among these, we highlight the struggle of the National Indigenous Congress - Indigenous Council of Government (CNI-CIG), in Mexico, and the struggle of La Via Campesina Brazil (VC-B), both emblematic movements that constitute themselves as collective political subjects in struggle and that promote popular horizons of transformation. Through the methodological proposal of Raquel Gutiérrez (2017), we examine these struggles to identify and analyze the inner horizons, which they express, practice and promote, with the practical achievements and successes - partial triumphs - of their processes for political and social transformation. With the objective of showing that, with their convergences and divergences, the construction of popular political horizons - community and national - are present in both territorial struggles.

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Peter Rosset, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur

Profesor and researcher at the Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR) in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Peter is also a permanent professor at the Graduate Program in Sociology (PPGS) of the State University of Ceará (UECE), collaborating professor at the Graduate Program in Territorial Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (TerritoriAL) of the Paulista State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) in São Paulo, Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor, Puey Ungphakorn School of Development Studies, Thammasat University, Tailandia and Visiting Researcher, Social Research Institute (CUSRI), Chulalongkorn University, Tailandia. Emeritus level, National System of Researchers (SNI), CONACYT, México, and Productivity PQ-2, CNPq, Brasil.

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Universidad: Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Professor at the State University of Ceará, in the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and in the Intercampi Academic Master in Education and Teaching. Productivity Fellow PQ2-CNPq. PhD in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México-Unam. Master in Sociology and Bachelor in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Ceará - UFC. Researcher at Clacso in the GT Anticapitalismos y Sociabilidades Emergentes and in the GT Economía Feminista Emancipatoria. E-mail: lia.barbosa@uece.br

Omar Giraldo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Omar Felipe Giraldo is a Professor at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores (ENES Mérida), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He holds a PhD in Agrarian Sciences from the Department of Rural Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (2013).  He collaborates with various peasant and indigenous organizations in Mexico and Latin America in their autonomous and agroecological processes. He received in 2021 the Award for Research in Social Sciences by the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the books Multitudes Agroecológicas, Afectividad Ambiental, Ecología Política de la Agricultura and Utopías en la era de la supervivencia.

León Henrique Ávila Romero, Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas

León Enrique Ávila Romero has worked at the Intercultural University of Chiapas, Mexico since 2005 in the area of Sustainable Development and agroecology. Member of the consolidated academic body Patrimonio, territorio y desarrollo en la frontera sur de México, member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, and works with indigenous communities and colonies in the defense of nature, forests and wetlands. He was a visiting researcher at CALAS in 2018/2019.

Tádzio Coelho, Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Professor at the Department of Social Sciences (DCS) and the Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). Coordinator of the Research and Extension Group Mining and Alternatives (MINAS) and researcher of the research and extension group Politics, Economy, Mining, Environment and Society (PoEMAS), collaborating professor at the Florestan Fernandes National School (ENFF) and advisor to the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in the face of Mining (MAM). Author of the books Projeto Grande Carajás: thirty years of frustrated development; Quando vier o silêncio: o problema mineral brasileiro; Quatro Décadas do Projeto Grande Carajás: Fraturas do Modelo Mineral Desigual na Amazônia; among other titles.

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2024-04-28

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ARAÚJO CÂNDIDA, Maíra; MICHAEL ROSSET, Peter; PINHEIRO BARBOSA, Lia; FELIPE GIRALDO, Omar; ÁVILA ROMERO, León Henrique; PETERS COELHO, Tádzio. Popular political horizons in Latin American territorial struggles : from the communitarian-popular to the national-popular in their confluences and divergences. Espaço Ameríndio, Porto Alegre, v. 18, n. 1, p. 373–414, 2024. DOI: 10.22456/1982-6524.137196. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/137196. Acesso em: 3 aug. 2026.

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