ABSTRACT
We are a space under construction, a collective effort articulated within a network of academic-activists and activists involved in various movements, organizations and groups that exist throughout Americas/Abya Yala. One element that at that time we could not fully verbalize but that emerged through a series of conversations and Red Trasnacional Otros Saberes (RETOS) meetings was fact that the movements creating these 'new' political practices are also generating new knowledges and other forms of knowing/doing. Through RETOS we want to develop new epistemologies, methodologies, ethical practices and languages of radical social transformation, those which to us seem relevant to the actual conjuncture of the current crises of modern civilization/Western capitalism in which we live. The disputes around the meaning and practice of concepts such as democracy, development and politics that these movements have opened make us question the way we see and interpret reality.
