Session 4
Organizational Solidarity in Practice in Latin America: Building Coalitions of Resistance and Creativity
4th November (Thursday)
8am New York9am-11am Buenos Aires1pm Paris3pm Istanbul7pm Bangkok11pm Sydney
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4th November (Thursday)
8am New York9am-11am Buenos Aires1pm Paris3pm Istanbul7pm Bangkok11pm Sydney
Abstract
This session considers organizational solidarity in practice – modes of organizing rooted in solidarity, relationality, coalition-building, and difference. It does so by thinking about Indigenous and working-class practices in the region commonly known as Latin America, such as campesino-indígena movements coalescing traditional practices and urban-neighborhood experiences in order to self-organize socio-political spaces, or Argentina's worker-led empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), where workers have been drawing on working-class self-activity to convert companies to cooperatives in order to self-manage spaces of production. Grounded in a diverse economies approach, our interventions begin to inventory, describe, and provisionally theorize the recuperations, re-articulations, and creative proposals for organizing social, cultural, and economic life being forged by diverse groups in Latin America. The session ultimately seeks to unravel four broad commonalities that begin to speak to how organizational solidarity in practice threads and shapes these post-colonial and increasingly anti-capitalist socio-economic practices in the region: the neoliberal political economic context, collective memory, horizontal organizing, and coalitional possibilities. Though emerging in different national conjunctures, local struggles, and historical trajectories, what Indigenous and working-class self-activity in Latin America bring to the surface are the resistive andcreative dimensions of each organizing experience. They are rooted in and create deeply relational coalitions linked via solidarity in difference, while drawing on collective memories of the past to recreate and re-envision the present and the future beyond the legacies of colonial histories and capitalist-centred actualities.
Convenors
Marcelo Vieta
Ana Inés Heras
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