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Politics: territories of struggles and resistance

Ofelia Fernandez (Argentina)
Legislator of the City of Buenos Aires (Front of All)

Dani Balbi (Brazil)
Doctor in Sciences of Literature and professor at the School of Social Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ)

Lilith Verstrynge (Spain)
political scientist Secretary of Organization of Podemos (Spain)

Temistocles Villanueva (Mexico)
Deputy of the Congress of Mexico City

Class 1

Ofelia Fernandez (Argentina)

Ofelia Fernández begins her class by reviewing the role of resistance and agenda building that popular movements played in Argentina during the government of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019). She especially highlights the examples of the student movement, the workers of the popular economy and feminism. Subsequently, she refers to the challenges that these movements face to reinvent their strategies to constitute a new politics in a post-pandemic context of inequality and social, economic and gender violence.

Class 2

Dani Balbi (Brazil)

Dani Balbi talks about the formative relations of Brazil, and how they determined the occupation of the territory and structured society throughout the last five centuries. Addressing the specific type of occupation that occurred in Brazil, he discusses how these factors resulted in class hierarchization. In addition, he develops the concepts of overseas expansion and agricultural enterprise, demonstrating the primitive exploration interests carried out by Portugal. Finally, he exposes how the Portuguese colonization was building its heritage through an extensive historical process, based on the enslaved labor force and the exploitation of natural resources.

Class 3

Lilith Verstrynge (Spain)

Lilith Verstrynge begins her reflection by developing two concepts from the historian Reinhart Koselleck to propose that one of the biggest problems we face today is that the concept of the future has disappeared from our horizons, so that social time has become a continuous present. that we do not know how to interpret and that it makes no sense. Given this, Lilith Verstrynge calls for political resistance to achieve the collective reappropriation of social time. To achieve this, she must reconcile the critique of broken promises with a radical critique of capitalism that has growth as an end in itself and recover the debate about putting the State above economic interests.

Class 4

Temistocles Villanueva (Mexico)

Temístocles Villanueva reflects on the challenges of politics, placing special emphasis on the importance of being rooted in their territories and communities and articulation with social movements. In the first instance, a tour of the party structure and representation of Mexican political parties since the 80s is carried out, to show how an "all encompassing" policy was consolidated in which no emphasis was placed on social differences and popular social struggles were diluted. Subsequently, the origin in 2012 of the student movement #YoSoy132 is detailed, which ends up setting a new pattern of political claim in Mexico. Finally, he makes some recommendations addressed to the militants of parties and social movements to achieve their reinvention.

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