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Intersticios sociales
versión On-line ISSN 2007-4964
Resumen
VELAZQUEZ GARCIA, Mario Alberto. Los movimientos sociales contemporáneos y el análisis del poder estatal. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2013, n.6, pp.1-22. ISSN 2007-4964.
Research on Social Movements has become a key issue for sociology and political science in Latin America, mainly due to the large number of protests and mobilizations that consistently occur in this region. In this regard, a lot of theories that seek to explain the operation of this type of collective action have emerged in social science. However, these works lack of a re-conceptualization of one of the major external agents of social movements: the State. This article use elements of the so-called "Bringing the State Back in" by authors like Skocpol to reconsiderate the relationship between these two social agents with emphasis on State action. The article extends the analysis of the tools and concrete actions with which the State seeks to control, avoid, or use the appearance of a protest; to achieve this, the authors not only analyze the re-active State action (repression, negotiation), but consider the everyday forms of State functioning as public policies or bureaucracy. To study these mechanisms, Foucault's proposal on state power technologies will be used. This allows the authors show that the State uses changeable, diversified, and with multiple purposes instruments, versus a social mobilization. Changeable, because the State is always generating adjustments in its strategy; diversified, because the agencies involved are different depending on each case; and with multiple purposes because they not only seek to control social mobilizations, but also have different political ends.
Palabras llave : State; Social Movements; Technologies of Power; Social Protest; Mexico.