The collective action of the Latin American Cultura Viva Comunitaria movement

¿Why live? Because it is pulsating, mutant, diverse. ¿Why communitary? Because it is where it is born, where it is organized

Abstract

This paper analyzes the collective action proposal of the Latin American Cultura Viva Comunitaria movement. Which is formed by community-based cultural groups, collaborative, self-managed and organized in a network, present in seventeen Latin American countries. It was established with the aim of building a social fabric capable of promoting transformations through the exchange of experiences of culture as a living force, anchored to the local space and oriented in participation for the animation of art and community culture. The objective of this movement is for each member country to have a cultural rights policy, represented through a general culture law, which designates 1% of national budgets for culture and 0.1% of that budget specifically for inclusion and visibility of the Living Community Culture. On this occasion the contribution is recognized from the interpretative and critical perspective of cultural studies, which suggests focusing on the analysis of new social movements from their characteristics and their particular sociocultural dynamics around the political as a driver of transnational collective action. The continental and the local are discussed in the framework of collective decisions in network, by addressing unknowns in the collective action developed by this type of cultural phenomena, in terms of the way in which their continental bases are interpreted and reproduced in local contexts