Environmental Movements in Latin America as a Socio-Political Answer to Global Development

Faced with the exhaustion of the political-ideological project of the State as intervener & benefactor in Latin America, as well as its inability to continue assuming its responsibilities autonomously, a new actor, Civic Society, is viewed as emerging with relative force in the developing scenar...

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Published inEspacio abierto Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 555 - 571
Main Author Santana Cova, Nancy
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published 01.10.2005
Subjects
Civil Society
Development Strategies
Environmental Movements
Globalization
Latin America
Modernity
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Summary:Faced with the exhaustion of the political-ideological project of the State as intervener & benefactor in Latin America, as well as its inability to continue assuming its responsibilities autonomously, a new actor, Civic Society, is viewed as emerging with relative force in the developing scenarios that orient the transition of the Latin American context towards the 21st century. This new actor's performance (under the figures of peaceful, urban, feminist, popular, & ecological social movements), represents an important political force which has assumed both the accusations against & the criticism of the "system" & of the shared values of modernity in its claim for participation & new spaces for the solution to many of the problems that modernization has engendered. Among them are environmental deterioration & the growth of poverty, In the case of environmental movements in particular, the socio-political demands that are proposed as a social answer to global changes & the implications of affecting vital spaces will be analyzed,. References. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:1315-0006