Since the early 1980s lat am seen its worst crisis of the century.

In 1982 mexico debt crisisreversal of development..1 Bu kosullarda l a da impassioned experience of resistance and collective struggle in many fronts.. richness novelty variety of this experience socialist feminism popular kitchens neighborhood movementsd squatters ecologists human rights defense gender movements coops1-2 Multiplicity of social actors plurality.. new social movementds that could not be caharcteerized in the frameqork of mdoernization and dependency3 Collective identities the terrain of daily life4 Social movements Used to have a strong state/political orientations ut today many look for their own cultural identities and spaces for social expression23.. ins earch for autonomy24 W international market and global power relations the position od latin am states and societies tends to lose relative importance.27 ve new techs transnational entrepreneurs..31 ..an important change in the structure of collective action takes place a new kind of conflict that originates in peoples efforts to bring about a new institutional order.29 We live in an uncertain transition btw a labor-based society and socities organized in terms of tecch and informational relations (allahallah!).. what is at stake re not only our pro and consumption mdoes but our very ways of thought, knowledge, pleasure and experience35-36 To analyze development as a cultural and economic discourse66..the fcrisis of mdeornity has been intensified in latin America68 Latin am modernity is thyerefore plural, contradeictory, and uneven her yerde oyle diilmi ve hep oole olmamis miydi?)..marginalized from the dominant circuits of material and symbolic prod..67 Social ocements should be seen equally and inseperably as struggles over meanings as material conditions..68 post-fordism regime a fundamental restructuring of pol eco cultural life 77 One must look at the micro-level of everyday practices ad their imbrication with larger processes of decelopment, patriarchy, capital, and the state (nerde class?)..up to 1960s identities were clearly defined and unproblematic (oyle miydi??)82 Hellman skeptical aout such concepts as autonomy321 ghellman e gore not all forms of movementparty-state articulation are equally detrimental to social movement autonomy against manipulative cooptation 323.. even pol parties are transformed by social movements hellman a gore 326