Le FORUM, Vol. 35 No. 3

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Reconfiguring Ecology in the Twenty-First–Century. Social Movements as Producers of the Global Age

This chapter proposes an agency perspective on social movements and actors who contribute to shape the Global Age, understood as a social configuration in which life and society are deeply shaped by an increasing reality and consciousness of the interdependence at the scale of humanity and the finitude of the planet. It briefly analyses the contribution of a series of actors of the global environmentalist movements, including indigenous movements, peasant movements, critical consumption, and environmental NGOs.The analysis emphasizes increasing contributions of actors from the Global South to the way we conceive our world and to solutions to global challenges. It also points to a renewing of epistemological and critical perspectives in a time increasingly shaped by the constraints and challenges of the global age. It points to major inconsistencies of the modern economic system on a limited planet and to the limits of social sciences that remain deeply rooted in modernity