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The transnational rural social movement La Vía Campesina has been critically sustained and shaped by the encounter anddiálogo de saberes(dialog among different knowledges and ways of knowing) between different rural cultures (East, West, North and South; peasant, indigenous, farmer, pastoralist and rural proletarian, etc.) that takes place within it, in the context of the increasingly politicized confrontation with neoliberal reality and agribusiness in the most recent phase of capital expansion. This dialog among the ‘absences’ left out by the dominant monoculture of ideas has produced important ‘emergences’ that range from mobilizing frames for collective action – like thefood sovereigntyframework – to social methodologies for the spread ofagroecologyamong peasant families. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this chapter we focus on food sovereignty and agroecology, in the transnational peasant social movement La Via Campesina, as issues which help us analyze mechanisms of internal convergence in rural social movements. We examine such convergence through the building of collective processes, and in the construction of mobilizing frames for collective action. In particular, we analyze the encounter and diálogo de saberes (dialog among different knowledges and ways of knowing) between different rural cultures (East, West, North, and South; peasant, indigenous, and rural proletarian; etc.) that take place within it. This dialog among the "absences" left out by the dominant monoculture of ideas, has led to a process of convergence that has yielded important "emergences," which range from mobilizing frames for collective action - like the food sovereignty concept - to social methodologies for the spread of agroecology among peasant families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Participatory democracy has been studied as an auxiliary to state processes and as an institutional and cultural part of social movements. Studies of the use of participatory democracy by the Zapatistas of Mexico and the Movimento Sem Terra (Landless Movement—MST) of Brazil show a shared concern with autonomy, in particular avoidance of demobilization through the clientelism and paternalism induced by government programs and political parties. Both movements stress training in democracy (the experience of “being government”) and the obligation to participate. Detailed examination of their governance practices may be helpful to communities building democratic movements in other places. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Peter Rosset, Maríia Elena Martíez-Torres and Luis Hernández-Navarro argue that the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas proved to be a key turning point and re-awakening for the global Left, or perhaps more accurately, the figurative birth of the movement that replaced the 'old Left.' The Zapatistas gave the new movements new forms and more inclusive methods and ideologies of struggle. These were the forms, methods and ideologies with roots in the history of subaltern indigenous communities deep in the Lacandóon jungle of Southeastern Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides answers to a question concerning the importance of land tenure security for achieving sustainable development goals.