Abstract

In an increasingly globalized world, several social movements have been searching for action forms which guarantee the necessary efficiency and union to achieve similar goals based on the creation of strategic alliances. In this context, the LGBT movement in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) created the "Mercosul LGBT Network", aiming at a bigger visibility and pressure, not only within their countries but also throughout the whole region. In this seminar, we will address the first impressions about this network's constitution, the involved agents, the occasional obstacles and the goals that drive this international network. With this perspective from the South, we hope to contribute with relevant considerations to the Iberian context.


Biographic Note

Fernando J. Taques is sociologist, with a Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Political Sociology by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). He is member of the Research Group in Social Movements (NPMS) and of the Gender Studies Institute (IEG), both located at the same university and  responsible for the major South-American events in their fields, like the "International Seminars on Social Movements", organized every three years by NPMS, and the "International Seminar Fazendo Gênero", organized by IEG. The author is currently doing a Doctoral Internship under the supervision of Professor Ana Cristina Santos at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC).  



Organization

Ana Cristina Santos

Support

Research Group on Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation