Autonomy, networks of significance and institutional impact

of social movements

Abstract

When Leslie told me about her book, my first impression was that it could be an important source of information for urban social movement studies, and I told her so, to which she explained that she wasn't aiming for that much, that in reality It was just a series of testimonies grouped more or less chronologically and that addressed different aspects of the struggle of the victims of the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. However, his stubbornness, when I had the opportunity to read it and analyze it in more detail, I realized that I had fallen short, the book is not only an excellent source of information, but an obligatory reference to understand different aspects and perspectives of social movements, their internal characteristics, their contradictions, their latent and manifest possibilities, and their impact on the transition to democracy in Latin American countries such as Mexico...