Problems of Social Participation in “Latin” America in the Age of Globalization: Theoretical and Case-Based Considerations for Practitioners and Researchers.

DANIEL MATO

Theoretical Approaches to Participatory Communication

Hampton Press

Lugar: Creskill , New Jersey, estados Unidos; Año: 1999; p. 51 - 75

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:none; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText {margin:0pt; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:none; mso-hyphenate:none; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:ES-VE; font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 85.05pt 70.85pt 85.05pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> This article presents a discussion on current problems and perspectives of social participation in "Latin" America. To evaluate those problems and perspectives requires us to place them in the context of ongoing globalization processes, otherwise any conclusion would be built on the unrealistic assumption that contemporary societies or communities constitute bounded isolated units. It also requires us to explore the relations between social participation and the social processes of identity making and agenda setting, because--to say it in a very reductive way--only those collectivities who exist as social actors and have their own social and/or political agendas can really participate. Those other collectivities that do not constitute themselves as social actors can only contribute to or resist the implementation of socially constituted and recognized actors' proposals.