Abstract

JIMENEZ GARCES, Claudia Mercedes. The "crossed legs" social movement, neo-subjective practice, and understanding the body as the site of the political. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2015, vol.38, n.1, pp.145-163. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v38n1.53283.

Among the tensions of modern society, subjectivity arises based on resistances, creativity, and the capacity of the generated transformations. As is standard practice in the social sciences, collectively constructed knowledge is based on the understanding that subjectivity itself is socially constructed. In perceiving the dynamics of social realities, it is possible to identify that subjectivity emerges in multiple circumstances: "amidst contingencies, transitory modes of life, permanent struggles; between desire, social pressures, and the needs of living and surviving" (Martínez y Cubides, 2012, p. 174). Current social movements arise from the cultural changes of the current context; that is, to the extent that global society is transformed, installed, and perpetuated, a series of new inclusive or exclusive conditions present themselves, provoking new social demands. In the case of new social actions, the changes and necessities of particularization and inclusion within the process of homogenization indicate a re-evaluation of identity. In this sense, social movements are opposed to trends that reject the subject, which are predominant in a totalizing society. In the new practices of social movements, "crossed-leg" or sex-strike demonstrations present themselves, making possible a reflection on the female body as the site of the political and showing that, based on fissures caused by modern thinking that the article labels modern dissatisfactions, expression explodes, which, from a collective perspective, makes it possible to understand the construction of new subjectivities. Thus, in this analysis, we attempt to take new lines of investigation regarding what is emerging in a globalized society; therefore, it is necessary to ask questions regarding the cultural, the political, gender, new exclusions, forms of resistance, new citizenship, etc. in a changing scenario that is in movement, disenchanted, totalized, homogenized, and in pressing need of study.

Keywords : Body; gender; woman; neo-subjectivity; new social movements; politics.

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