Las transformaciones de la militancia revolucionaria en El Salvador y Nicaragua

Abstract

In this article, the author presents a conceptual proposal to analyze the repercussions of the revolutionary movements of the 1970s and 1980s on political participation and representation practices in Nicaragua and El Salvador. By questioning the analytical value of concepts such as the “old” left and the “new” left, the author studies their transformations and conflicts in the post-1990 Central-American environment. At the same time, the author proposes reconsidering the concept of militancy as a set of social practices that constructs its own space, in which political dynamics become articulated with social worlds such as the neighborhood, the workplace or the university, which allow the actors to adopt new abilities, defined by the author as militant capital. The article closes by pointing out the possibilities that this perspective offers for the analysis of the emergence of new forms of civil participation in the region.