The New Social Movements in Mexico: The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity and #YoSoy132.

Abstract

Despite significant social movements, such as the trade union movement in the 1970s and the Zapatista uprising in the 1990s, civil society had little involvement in the democratization process the country underwent during the 1990s that led to the pri losing control of the presidential office for the first time. Moreover traditional stakeholders such as trade union movements have lost their central role. This paper analyzes two Mexican social movements of great significance. It starts out from the consideration that while it is important to analyze the capacity of social movements to influence the political system, it is even more important to study them on the basis of the meaning they themselves ascribe to their actions.