Franklin Ramirez. Sociologist. Professor-researcher in the Department of Political Studies of FLACSO-Ecuador. He has been a visiting professor at various universities in the region and outside of it: UNAM (Mexico), University of La Plata (Argentina), University Lyon 2 (France), University of Antioquia (Colombia), University of Art and Social Sciences (Arcis -Chile), Bartolomé de las Casas School (El Cuzco-Peru). His current lines of research include, on the one hand, “Procesos de movilización colectiva, politización y participación democrática en los países andinos” (Processes of collective mobilization, politicization and democratic participation in the Andean countries) and, on the other, “Retorno estatal, conflicto y post-neoliberalismo en América del Sur” (State return, conflict and post-neoliberalism in South America).

 

Research lines and projects

Social movements, conflict, and politicization

Participation, institutional innovation, and democracy

State, political change and post-neoliberalism in Latin America

 

Publications

Monographs (selection)

2013. Nuda Política. Democracia, participación y conflictos sociales en el Ecuador (2009-2012). Quito: ILDIS-FLACSO-Perfiles de Opinión.

2008. La innovación partidista de las izquierdas en América Latina. Quito: ILDIS. Editor.

2005. La insurrección de abril no fue solo una fiesta. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD-Terranueva, Abya Yala.

2002. Versiones y aversiones del desarrollo. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD-SIISE.

2001. La política del desarrollo local. Innovación institucional, participación y actores sociales en dos cantones indígenas del Ecuador. Quito: FORUM 16, Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, PGU-ONU.

 

Compilations (selection)

2009. Ramírez, Franklin y Stefanoni y M. Svampa. Las vías de la emancipación. Australia: Ocean Books.

2005. Ramírez, Franklin y Jacques Ramírez: La estampida migratoria ecuatoriana. Crisis, redes transnacionales y repertorios de acción migratoria. UNESCO, Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, EED, ALISEI, Abya Yala, Quito.

2000. Ramírez, Franklin; Augusto Barrera y Lourdes Rodriguez: Ecuador un modelo para (des)armar: descentralización, disparidades regionales y modo de desarrollo. Quito: Grupo Democracia y Desarrollo Local, ILDIS, Abya-Yala, Veco-Bélgica.

 

Articles / Chapters (selection)

2018. Ramírez, Franklin y Sandra Strossel: “El incómodo lugar de las instituciones en la populismología latinoamericana”. En Revista de Estudios Políticos, No. 52, enero-junio. 106-127.

2017. “Équateur: ascension des luttes anti-corréistes, absence de débouché politique”. En État des résistances dans le Sud: Amérique Latine, Vol. XXIV–2017/12, N°4. 63-78.

2016. “Political Change, State Autonomy, and Post-Neoliberalism in Ecuador, 2007–2012”. En Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 43, Number 1. 143-158.

2015. “Subjetivación política y perspectivas del cambio”. En Movimientos subalternos, antagonistas y autónomos en México y América Latina, M. Modonesi (coordinador), UNAM: México D.F. 29-49.

 

Research project as a fellow of CALAS:

Title: Political crisis, social movements and participation regimes in Ecuador (1997-2017)

Abstract: In the last decades Ecuador has experienced both processes of constitutional replacement (1998 and 2008) in the midst of conjunctures crisis of legitimacy of representation and expansion of demands for popular participation. The constituent processes raised the promise of recomposition of the political from the extension of mechanisms of deliberation and public participation in decision-making. If in 1998 the Constitution planted the advance of the neoliberal agenda while extending certain social rights, in 2008 the Magna Carta reactivated the neo-developmentalist state and extended the previously existing mechanisms of direct, community, or participatory democracy. The search for alternatives to the dominance of the market during the 90s came from the hand of the indigenous movement and a bloc of parties and organizations committed to deepening democracy. Already in the 21st century, however, this bloc was eaten away by the continuity of the political crisis and had little role in the consolidation of the populist left led by Rafael Correa. The participatory leap in the 2008 Constitution opened, then, in the midst of the exhaustion of the popular movement and the launch of a new "participation regime" that sought to de-corporatize the state and incorporate nonorganized citizens into its bosom. The new legitimacy of politics seemed consistent at the cost, however, of enthroning a decisionist leadership little permeable to social control. Thus, in light of the comparison between two models of participation (1998-2006 and 2007-2017), my work examines the extent to which popular involvement in the democratic process contributed to disarticulate or transform the crisis of politics in contemporary Ecuador.