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Book SynopsisSocial Movements and Latin American Philosophy: From Ciudad Juarez to Ayotzinapa provides a historical and theoretical analysis of the Ayotzinapa social movement from the perspective of Latin American philosophy to provide a deeper understanding of the challenges that social movements face in the context of extreme violence. Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda analyzes the complete cycle of mobilization appertaining to Ciudad Juárez, the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, and the Ayotzinapa social movement. Guided by the theories of Enrique Dussel, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Ernesto Laclau, and Santiago Castro-Gomez, Díaz Cepeda addresses questions of how a social movement is born, how the distinct social movement organizations should articulate to form a movement of movements, what (if at all) the limits and extent of these organizations should be. In raising and addressing such questions, Díaz Cepeda argues in favor of a soft articulation and the perennial need for social movement o
Table of Contents
Foreword
By Enrique Dussel A.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ciudad Juárez: The Movement against Militarization
Chapter 2: Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
Chapter 3: Ayotzinapa
Chapter 4: State of Rebellion
Chapter 5: A Movement of Movements
Chapter 6: A New Order
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
