Ilse Scherer-Warren

TL;DR: The diversity of identity of social subjects, the transverse nature of demands for citizen's rights, the forms of activism and empowerment through networking and, finally, the political participation of network organizations are explored in this article.

TL;DR: The authors in this article analyzed the extent to which the 2013 public demonstrations in Brazil differ from the great demonstrations of the 20th century and concluded that the relationship between organized social movements and public demonstrations occurred in both historical and institutional terms.

TL;DR: Scherer-Warren et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the capacity or potential of social movements networks in this continent in the construction of emancipatory referencials, starting with the presupposition that material demands should be translated in symbolic representations, in order to approximate the actors to the networks, to allow to construct collective identities and to create symbolic links of reference inside the networks.