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Decolonizing Collective Action

Over the last decade, new forms of collective social and political action have come into view: the Arab Spring in 2010, Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, to name just a few. Multiple social movements in Latin America, following the tradition that became visible in the 1960s with liberation theology, are reemerging to claim a form of self-government without a State, or a right to land understood as territory vis-à-vis the traditional conception of property, or even a form of state beyond the inherited Western notions of nation and sovereignty. The myriad efforts to consolidate collective struggles reveal the heterogeneous yet consistent power of resistance vis-à-vis a globalized neoliberal reason and its descent into fascism. Alongside these new forms of collective action, new forms of thought arise to urgently delineate the future not as an unstoppable juggernaut, but as a contested space of action and resistance. In those visions of the future, collective action and organization play a pivotal role by creating transnational networks of solidarity. The delineation of the future in these terms begins by confronting the expectations and anxieties of the current moment. It simultaneously elicits and demands new frameworks that allow for a rethinking of time itself. From that perspective, new modes of collective action subvert the relationship between the past, the present, and possible futures. Indeed, these collectivities call for a different future while simultaneously disrupting the present and drawing on influences from the past, making the past speak to us to forge what Édouard Glissant described as “a prophetic vision of the past,” while allowing the future to become the site of the production of another, contested, form of history. In short, these new forms of collective action introduce new regimes of temporality. María del Rosario Acosta López is associate professor of philosophy at DePaul University. Email: macostal@depaul.edu