El agua, la vida y los nuevos discursos de la resistencia

Abstract

The text examines how Indigenous and popular struggles in Latin America—particularly in Chiapas, Ecuador, and Cochabamba—represent a five-century-long resistance to colonial and neoliberal domination, articulating new utopias, community-based forms of organization, and discourses aimed at refounding the world through diversity, territorial defense, and the construction of horizontal, participatory democracies. These uprisings, driven by extreme dispossession—such as the privatization of water—reveal heterogeneous subjects, new political practices, and a profound critique of capitalism, proposing emancipatory horizons in which “the world must be refounded” and life and the common good prevail over market logic.