Articulación y hegemonía: la tensión entre lo situacional concreto de cada experiencia de lucha y lo general abstracto de la construcción colectiva

Abstract

Difference in the experiences of social struggle, in our country & throughout Latin America & the world, urgently need explication or, as we would say, articulation. However, we are aware that there are dangers in articulating too simple & unifying an account of the great diversity of identities & experiences that characterize current social struggles. We begin by specifying some of our dissatisfactions & disagreements with certain ways of approaching - or avoiding - the problems of articulation & hegemony. We identify those authors who we consider to be central to this subject, & explore their work. We then reflect on our conversations with people who took part in the processes of social mobilization which occurred in Argentina from December, 2001 onwards.