Abstract

PARRA-ROMERO, Adela  and  GITAHY, Leda. Social Movement as Actor-Network: Assembling the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Páramo de Santurbán. univ.humanist. [online]. 2017, n.84, pp.113-139. ISSN 0120-4807.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uh84.msar.

This paper explores the application of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to the study of social movements that emerge in socio-environmental conflicts. From the case of the Committee for the Defense of Water and the Páramo de Santurbán, it discusses how this approach allows to track the configuration of social movements as a heterogeneous network of material and cultural aggregates, human and non-human elements that self-organize and can join other networks to meet their needs. The paper concludes that the actor-network ‘Committee for the Defense of Water and the Páramo de Santurbán’ is assembled through three processes: to know, to inform, to connect. Its agency, based on the committee’s ability to become a spokesman for water defense, makes use of the legal network, social mobilization, and knowledge production to transport it and provide it with scientific and political features to make it a matter of social interest.

Keywords : Socio-environmental conflicts; social movements; actor-network theory; Páramo de Santurbán; water.

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