Las asambleas vecinales como sistemas de interacción emergentes y espacios de participación política en los conflictos socioambientales urbanos.

The aim of this article is to analyze the emergence of systems of interaction and the reconfiguration of the forms of political participation as results of urban socio-environmental conflicts. Establishing a dialogue among the systemic perspective, pragmatism, and political sociology, the author proposes conceptual elements for the study of the consequences of this kind of conflict linked to the structures of a system of protest. Neighborhood organizations can be seen as emerging systems of interaction whose practices and communications produce ways of observing and mechanisms for political participation in autonomous spaces. Using qualitative methodology, he studies the case of the Coyoacán General Assembly of Neighborhoods, Towns, and Rocky Areas and its creation in the framework of a conflict over the environmental consequences of real estate development in southern Mexico City. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]