Latin American social movements

Critical theories and debates about training

Abstract

This article reviews the critical approaches on social movements developed in the last two decades
in Latin America, aiming to discuss to which extent these involve a theoretical renewal in the field of
study of social movements. For this sake, we review the criticism to European and North American
theories, the different ways of integration and reworking of elements from these approaches, and
the debates and concepts specifically elaborated to understand the features of Latin American
social mobilization. In this context, the place of the debate around training imparted by social
movements in the current academic production is given special attention.