This article examines, on one hand, the intensive development of three renewable energy industries in Latin America: wind (in Brazil and Mexico), hydropower (in Brazil) and large scale soy growing (in Argentina and Brazil) and, on the other, social movements that emerge in response to the expansion of these industries. The text posits the existence of a causal relation between frame changes (GOFFMAN, 1974) of these social movements and the impact of each of these industries on the environment and society. On the basis of the analysis of the three cases, the concept of pressure is introduced, as a key factor that determines the adoption and change of frame of a social movement, seen here as indicators of the evolutional changes in contemporary Latin American society.
Keywords:
Latin America, renewable energy, social movements, state- society interrelations
Author Biographies
Emma Mendoza, Universidad de Colima
Egresada del programa de estudios de Asia y Africa, El Colegio de México; trabaja en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad de Colima, México
Vadim Pérez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Egresado de la Universidad de Colima, México, con la especialidad de ciencias fisiológicas; actualmente realiza estancia postdoctoral en el Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM, Cuernavaca, México
Mendoza, E., & Pérez, V. (2010). Renewable energy sources and social movements in Latin America. Estudios Internacionales, 42(165), p. 109–128. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2010.12667
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