1. Presentation

This meeting have as its objective to establish a space of encounter, exchange, self-formation and debate from the "social movements" (SM) in relation to activist research/investigation.

We are conscious of the fact that the word "social movement" is argued over, so, in order to avoid misunderstandings, what we mean by Social Movements in the contest of this meeting is: those collectives, organizations and groups that from forms of organization that are not institutionalized work for social transformation from a critical perspective of collective emancipation.

We believe that the central, most important part of the meeting falls in the participating subjectivities of activist research, realized from/for social movements. We are critical of academic research that studies SM like a mere object of to be known.

We invite to participate all of those people and collectives that are interested in (re)creating, (re)thinking, (re)inventing and (re)appropriating of these knowledge and of the formation from the focus on "activist research/investigation". We are not hoping for a local encounter, since already taking root in the globalization of dynamics of production, command and coercion, we believe that we need to strengthen networks of interchange and exchange much beyond the borders and boundaries constituted by the confines of States, in order that we can (co)learn from one another, so that we can define shared lines of intervention without this taking place at the cost of establishing a local coordination between the distinct experiences of activist research/investigation.

Finally, we hope that the conference auto-constitute itsefs as a-disciplinary in order that we overcome the fictitious academicism distinctions/divisions.