Los movimientos sociales en un mundo globalizado: ¿alguna novedad?

Abstract

The article develops a number of issues regarding the impact of globalization on collective political actors which we tend to term social movements, or "networks of movements", placing particular emphasis -but not exclusively- on those movements which have emerged in Latin America. To this effect the article has three sections. Firstly, it present a discussion of the global context and its impact on political. Secondly, it develops different explanatory perspectives -wich coincide with different analytical frameworks- for the observation of social movements (taken in a broad sense) in the newglobal context. Finally, this article reflects on issues concerning the changing forms of socoil movements as a new century dawns.