Social outburst (2019-2020), the demand for the political
Abstract
Between 2019 and 2020, Latin America experienced a cycle of mass mobilizations against neoliberal reforms, inequality, poverty, and systematic violence, revealing a crisis of governance, which in turn intensified with the COVID-19 pandemic.These events highlighted both the vulnerability of human life and the limited capacity of the state to respond to social demands.In this context, the purpose of this paper is to present a philosophical reflection that analyzes social movements not from a sociological perspective, but rather from the perspective of their aesthetic connections.It will problematize the crystallization of struggles for political representation and identity, as well as the failure of forms of governance in the face of multidimensional crises.It proposes to understand social movements as processes of folding and unfolding that, in their immanence, question the limits of the possible, opening a symbolic and imaginary horizon for the materialization of new forms of life.The research does not seek to offer a programmatic model, but rather to recognize irreducible diversity and difference as mechanisms for the creative production of the political.Where, for example, utopia is understood not as an illusion or a fantastical vision of the future, but as a critical praxis on reality, capable of constructing conditions of existence beyond institutional representation.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Latin American socio-political dynamics
Latin American Cultural Politics
Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
Publication details
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter