Repertorios de activismo digital en la defensa de territorios con proyectos de infraestructura y extractivismo: los casos del golfo de Tribugá y el páramo de Santurbán

Abstract

This research aims to characterize the repertories of digital activism in defense of territories affected by infrastructure and extractivism projects, taking as study cases the Gulf of Tribugá and the Paramo of Santurbán in the period 2019 to 2020. his research uses a qualitative type of methodology. Jeroen Van Laer and Peter Van Aelst’s typology of a new digitalized action repertoire was taken as a method of analysis which indicates a classification of social movement’s action forms through digital tools, considering the role of the internet to the creation or modification of this kind of initiatives and the risk implied by its execution. This research was carried out from the use of two research techniques: semi-structured interviews made to leaders of the Gulf of Tribugá and the Paramo of Santurbán social movements; and content analysis of the information extracted from Twitter. The results show how digital technologies allowed the transformation of the ways of understanding, practicing, and organizing citizenship around common dissatisfactions. Also, it shows the complementarity between on-line actions of social movements and those ‘real’ actions in the off-line dimension. Digital activism initiatives do not imply the disappearance of traditional social movements actions, on the contrary, they do complement and ease their implementation.