Resumen

JUNGEMANN, Beate. Organizaciones sociales y anclaje territorial Escenarios y componentes de la transformación socioterritorial y local en Venezuela. CDC [online]. 2008, vol.25, n.67, pp.3-34. ISSN 1012-2508.

In Latin America, social movements and organizations engage in a struggle for better living conditions, demanding more participation in public policies, from and in their territories. For the democratization of society, the socioterritorial anchoring of social organizations is very important. This article examines if in the Venezuelan case new public spaces are being built in the microlocal level, based on the practices of communitarian organizations. The analysis of organizations such as Communal Councils and Health Committees shows achievements, difficulties and contradictions in which their communitarian practices are embedded. The difficult construction of institutionalized public spaces for the exercise of a citizenship anchored in the socioterritorial realm has begun in Venezuela.

Palabras clave : Social organizations; Socioterritorial transformation; Public spaces.