GLOBALIZATION AND MOBILIZATION IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA IN LATIN AMERICA

How have Third World peoples responded to changes rooted in neoliberal transformations? Below I explore ways that victims of reform have addressed and redressed deprivations and felt-injustices experienced as a result of recent economic restructuring. Their strategies have ranged from individual efforts to “exit”, to opt for more promising alternatives, to covert non-compliance with demands made of them, to more overt coordinated collective forms of resistance. A combination of new deprivations and injustices, new frames for interpreting them, and new perceptions of how conditions perceived unsatisfactory can be corrected, have ushered in new movements that draw upon post-modern and anti-modern as well as modernist claims and strategies.