El ciclo de protesta 2010-2016 en Colombia. Una explicación

Abstract

This  paper  studies  the  determinants  of  the  protest  cycle  between  2010  and  2016  in  Colombia.  First,  it  examines  the  dynamics  of  institutional  politics  in  the  last  three  decades. The  second  part  analyzes  the  consequences  of  the  armed  conflict and the repression of social movements and organizations. Finally, it describes the organizational  and  discursive  recomposition  in  social  movements.  The  political  context is characterized by the closure of institutional politics and the persistence of repression of social movements. However, the great mobilizations have been possible, first, because they have organizational infrastructures and speeches capable of articulating diverse actors and, second, because peace negotiations motivate an expansion  of  the  public  agenda  towards  systematically  blocked  social  problems,  so  that  Potential  benefits  of  the  positioning  of  the  demands  of  the  movements  is greater than the costs of collective action in terms of repression.