This book is written in the concluding stage of the balance in the correlation of forces that sustained neoliberalism; It offers a synthetic exercise of the actions of popular forces in their territorial praxis, their constitutive features, as well as the meanings that this territorial practice constructed between scientific praxis and popular praxis.

The author, Marcos Aurelio Saquet, a prominent Brazilian geographer and academic activist, has dedicated his work to accompanying the popular territorial struggles in Latin America and strengthening them by establishing bridges between popular knowledge and critical academic knowledge that contributes to the processes of territorial emancipation. This work offers us an overview of the set of structural features of the past that survive in Latin America as a dependent and exploitative inheritance, as well as a historical evaluation of both the theoretical-methodological options that seek to accompany and strengthen this type of praxis and the possibilities of construction and future from a decolonizing and counterhegemonic perspective.

The collection “Space, politics and capital” makes this work available to the Mexican public under the conviction that the theoretical-political search to strengthen spatial and territorial praxis must be plural and, above all, with a high degree of sensitivity in relation to the popular classes and sectors as the subjects who put these practices into action. We hope that it will also serve the Spanish-speaking public and contribute to better understanding the popular territorial praxis of the present and, above all, to strengthen critical scientific praxis and the bridges established between them.