Acción colectiva y educación popular: contribuciones para un conocimiento emancipatorio

the text includes the issues outlined in the international congress of neighborhoods and borders in april 2010 in bogotá. welcoming the central referents presented by b. de sousa in their efforts to renew critical theory and reinvent social emancipation, the article presents a reflection about the invention and gives an update of an emancipatory knowledge from the collective action undertaken by social movements in the latin american context. similarly, it is of interest to highlight some relationships and challenges that arise between social movements and processes of popular education on the need to promote critical pedagogy of cultural translation that promotes dialogue and exchange of an ecology of knowledge between social movements, ngos and social scientists, generating collective learning spaces to revitalize the social actions and the local and global networks of knowledge-oriented social transformation.