Gonzalo Delamaza
tlooto Summary
Socio-territorial conflicts produce political consequences through accumulation and combination with environmental elements, leading to new forms of politicization.
Abstract
espanolSe propone una conceptualizacion pertinente acerca de como los conflictos socio territoriales estan produciendo consecuencias politicas, en la region andina de America del Sur, para hacer posible la investigacion comparada. Se analiza el campo politico institucional, el de las politicas publicas y de las relaciones de poder entre los actores del conflicto en dos ambitos: dentro del territorio (la escala local) y mas alla de el (diversas escalas). Se examinan casos a partir de fuentes secundarias y se discuten las metodologias utilizadas para construir bases de datos. Los actores del conflicto son mas diversos y con menor peso organizativo que los movimientos sociales, pero al mismo tiempo ejercen roles de mediacion, anteriormente cumplidos por organizaciones formales como los partidos politicos. Las consecuencias no surgen de un conflicto en particular, sino principalmente de su acumulacion y combinacion con elementos del entorno. Surgen nuevas formas de politizacion: nuevos actores, en lugares no tradicionales y en ausencia de los mediadores tradicionales. El paso de lo local a lo nacional y a lo internacional no opera como escala progresiva, sino como una dinamica multiescalar y socio institucional, que se comprende mejor con la nocion de conflicto que con la de movimientos sociales. EnglishOur aim is to propose a relevant conceptualization about how socio-territorial conflicts are producing political consequences, based on evidence from countries of the Andean Region, to make possible comparative research. The political institutional field, public policies and power relations between the actors of the conflict in two areas -within the territory (local scale) and beyond the territory (several scales) - are analyzed. Cases are examined from secondary sources and methodologies used to build databases are discussed. Conflict actors are more diverse and present less organizational weight than traditional social movements but, at the same time, they exercise mediation roles, previously fulfilled by formal organizations such as political parties. Consequences do not arise from a particular conflict, but mainly from its accumulation and combination with elements of the political environment. New forms of politicization around these conflicts emerge: new actors in non-traditional places and in the absence of traditional political mediators. The shift from the local to the national and the international does not operate as a progressive scale, but as a multi-scale and socio-institutional dynamic, which is better understood with the notion of conflict than with social movements.
Citation format
DELAMAZA, Gonzalo. Consecuencias políticas de los conflictos socio-territoriales. hacia una conceptualización pertinente. Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 2019.