Social movements, subalternity and hegemony. The social and political impact of the 21st century on social movements in Ecuador 1990 - 2014 from a look at the inequitable internal practices and their influence on the external political practices of the subjects studied.

The social movements in Ecuador had a fundamental development in the 90s, this development occurred from the following relations - social movements - State Social movements - Society Social Movement - NGOs During this decade these social movements were losing their antagonistic capacity in front of the State, its link with society characterized by the autonomy that made the construction of socio -political subjects. Meanwhile, the social movements - NGOs relationship account for the dissolution of the autonomous and the antagonistic to build a hegemonic base of capital worldwide through international cooperation and NGOs; Whose origin links them so much with the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter -American Development Bank, regional instances such as the Andean Development Corporation, and political, economic and academic instances such as ECLAC. From this context, this research will be aimed at locating, reflecting and interpreting whether these social movements are able to recover their autonomy and antagonism under the new capital conditions related to the hegemonic construction of cultural, political, economic and ideological interests, in addition to the internal contradictions that occur as inequality relations. For this purpose we need to point out the structures of power, hegemony and domination in the four political subjects to investigate (women's movement, indigenous movement - peasant, student movement and labor movement), without losing sight of the economic structures that support it and its incidence in the social. Therefore, this investigation raises the following question. What are the current conditions for social movements to position themselves in an antagonistic way and reach the exercise of autonomy in the emergency and the formation of a socio-political subject? The theoretical framework of the research guide will be based on the critical theory developed from the thought of classics of social sciences such as Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Edward P P Thompson, by Antonio Negri and Walter Benjamin, contemporary authors Judith Butler and Massimo Modonesi the categories with which the investigation will be addressed are: Subalternity, antagonism, antagonism, autonomy, autonomy and autonomy Hegemony, theoretical field developed by Gramsci and will have the concept of conceptual umbrella. A second categorical group has to do with the concepts of being-consciousness, process-experience, subjectivation-political subjectivity, everyday life-substantivity, political-social praxis, categories addressed from Lukacs, Benjamin, Zizek, Butler and Thompson. Finally, we will address from a third categorical field the concepts of political field and economic field, as long as it gives an account of the relations of domination and hegemony, these concepts will be developed from the Bourdian theory. The method of this research will be inductive-qualitative based on the crossing of data, analysis and triangulation. This methodology will allow us a broad internal theoretical discussion, a selection of the samples to be analyzed from the subjects of the research through the analysis of documentary, testimonial and file sources. Social and political actors will be selected, whose trajectory and prominence have marked a milestone in the processes and experiences of social movements. The research tools will be used: life stories, in -depth interviews, semi -structured and structured interviews, focal groups.

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