%0 Journal Article %T Movimientos Sociales Rurales y Problem¨¢tica Medioambiental: La Disputa por la Territorialidad %A Bowen %A Sof¨ªa %A F¨¢brega %A Felipe %A Medel %A Rodrigo %J Psicoperspectivas %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.5027/psicoperspectivas-Vol11-Issue1-fulltext-187 %X the profound socio-productive transformations, specifically those associated with the impact of global economic policies, influence the so-called rural social movements. this article aims to understand the changes that these rural social-movements have experienced, with a special emphasis on the historical transit of the rural collective action in this new scenario. the proposed hypothesis is that the fight for the land, reshaped from a symbolic and valoric perspective, is still a primary factor in the demands that originate these social movements. the emergence of the new rural social movements is redefined as a dispute for the territory, in other words, the land with a meaning and history. the discussion will be centered on the rural-environmentalist movements in the framework of mining conflicts since these question themes related to territory and identity. %K new rural social movements %K territorial dispute %K environmental conflict %K territoriality. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-69242012000100010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en