Abstract

ROJAS-OLIVEROS, Pedro. Why Study Social Movements Today? Underground Notes for Interculturalism beyond the Ethnic. Desafíos [online]. 2014, vol.26, n.1, pp.121-169. ISSN 0124-4035.  https://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.12804/desafios26.1.2014.04.

Intercultural practices are usually associated with actions for dialogue between different ethnic groups, especially when it comes to activities around education or research. This overlap between ethnicity and culture has led to a kind of closure of the political project of interculturalism, cover the speeches of other subaltern social group who encounter the of support of their (re) definition of identity beyond ethnicity redefinition. The judicious study of contemporary social movements allows for the visualization of those speeches and for the possibilities articulation with other competing ways of seeing and solving the world. The opening of an intercultural political project is urgent for the deconstruction of hegemonic models in every field, from the economic to the political, necessarily going through the epistemic. The counterculture as a response to the imposition of values and knowledge provides a possibility understudied of resistance and political action from the social margins. Through a theoretical approach to different relevant proposals of social movements and the results of a research seminar given at the Rosario University, the article seeks to provide some clues about the possibility of articulation between different identities and the opening of the intercultural project.

Keywords : social movements; intercultural practice; identities; counterculture.

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