%0 Journal Article
%T Imaginarios, incertidumbre y protesta social en M谷xico:  C車mo analizar sus desplazamientos e identidades?
%A Felipe de Alba
%J European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
%D 2012
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X : The imaginary, uncertainty and social protest in Mexico: How to analyse their displacements and identities? This article investigates how social and po-litical actors in Mexico mobilize through informal institutional practices: what is be-yond their control, what is unpredictable, or what is impossible to plan. These actors show different responses to uncertainty. Based on these various responses, the article suggests that social problems are 'social constructions', that is, they are defined by institutional discourses and identities emerg-ing from social action. Based on interviews and newly collected data on the notion of the uncertainty in Mexican cities, the paper discusses how social leaders, public servants and citizens define issues such as the 'gov-ernance of conflict' through their protest activities. How does the social imaginary operate when confronting the unexpected? How do people define what is relevant and what is essential in moments of social crisis? Based on empirical answers to these ques-tions, this article seeks relationships and in-terconnections between the process of con-struction of the protests in three cases of so-cial and political action in Mexico. Resumen: En este art赤culo se explora c車mo los actores sociales y pol赤ticos en M谷xico se movilizan frente a los acontecimientos de lo informal institucional: lo que escapa a su control, lo que es imprevisible, lo que es imposible de planificar. Se presentan respuestas de diver-sos actores, lo que permite un an芍lisis de los problemas sociales como una 'construcci車n social', es decir, definidos por los discursos institucionales y las identidades de la acci車n social. A partir de una serie de entrevistas y de datos recopilados recientemente, as赤 co-mo del uso de la noci車n de incertidumbre que viven algunas metr車polis mexicanas, se discute c車mo los l赤deres sociales, funciona-rios y ciudadanos, a trav谷s de sus protestas, definen temas como la 'governance del con-flicto'.  C車mo opera el imaginario social frente a lo imprevisible?  C車mo los ciuda-danos definen lo que es relevante y lo que es esencial en situaci車n de crisis social? Ba-s芍ndose en las respuestas emp赤ricas a esas preguntas, el documento busca interrelacio-nes y l赤neas de conexi車n en los procesos de construcci車n de la protesta en tres casos de acci車n social y pol赤tica colectiva en M谷xico.
%K social protest
%K Mexico
%K uncertainty
%K mobile metropolises
%K protesta social
%K M谷xico
%K incertidumbre
%K metr車polis m車viles
%U http://www.erlacs.org/index.php/erlacs/article/view/8402