A Latin American-wide Initiative Towards Popular and Community Culture

Abstract

The essay analyzes several different initiatives in Latin America nowadays whose perspective is related to social solidarity economies and whose purpose is to support and even develop forms of cultural knowledge that have been historically present in our countries, yet many a times dismissed. From an ethnographic point of view the analysis shows why networking across national boundaries seems to be crucial in order to sustain ways of acting, perceiving and believing that otherwise may be lost.