La política prefigurativa de los movimientos populares en América Latina.

The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential "measuring unit" which allows for the analysis of the scopes and limitations of the innovative modes of organization and struggle put forward by the Latin-American social movements, with the purpose of confronting it with some of the concrete experiences that exist in Latin America. After defining prefigurative politics as a set of practices and social relations that, in the present moment, "anticipate" the germs of a future society, it is fundamented why this category might constitute a pertinent notion to approach this new processes, in which social movements emerge as a weighty collective actor by installing in the public agenda certain claims and demands, and influencing state institutions, but without their integration or subsumption to their government structures.

Also available on the web: Acta Sociológica (Accessed June 24, 2016)