“Fronteiras dos Movimentos Sociais” / "Frontiers of the Social Movements"

O adensamento da producao academica sobre movimentos sociais na ultima decada no Brasil, quer nas Ciencias Sociais ou ao redor delas, se expressa hoje na consolidacao de redes de pesquisa e espacos de debate academico em foruns como, por exemplo, as ultimas edicoes do Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia e os encontros anuais da Associacao Nacional de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencias Sociais (Anpocs). Junto a tais redes e foruns, e possivel destacar como evidencia robusta desse mesmo processo o volume crescente de dossies tematicos, bem como de artigos publicados em dialogo constante e critico com abordagens teoricas e autores internacionais. O dossie ora apresentado se insere nesse ritmo de adensamento, explorando, nesta apresentacao e nos artigos a seguir, debates sobre fenomenos e abordagens que, ha algum tempo, tem recebido crescente atencao de pesquisas de movimentos sociais, expandindo as fronteiras analitico-conceituais desse campo de estudos e, assim, desafiando-o.  Abstract The intensification in academic production on social movements in the last decade in Brazil, whether within or around the Social Sciences, is expressed today in the consolidation of research networks and spaces for academic debate in forums such as, for example, the latest editions of the Brazilian Congress of Sociology and the annual meetings of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (Anpocs). Along with such networks and forums, it is possible to highlight as robust evidence of this same process the growing volume of thematic dossiers, as well as articles published in constant and critical dialogue with theoretical approaches and international authors. The dossier presented here falls within this pace of intensification, exploring, in this presentation and in the following articles, debates on phenomena and approaches that, for some time, have received increasing attention from research on social movements, expanding the analytical-conceptual frontiers of this field of studies and, thus, challenging it.