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Paraphrasing the title of Rancière's book On the edges of politics, this article explores a possible notion of biopolitics. This notion is not necessarily concerned with the ways in which power is present in the devices for disciplining bodies and the regulation of the life of populations as Foucault put it or by narrowing and confusing the notions of Bíos and Zoé present in Agamben's reflection. On the contrary, it tries to propose a conceptualization that account for the experience of production and expansion of life alternatives, inscribed in the field of political struggle, which have been gestated in different social movements. With this in mind, the article talks about recent expressions in feminist demonstrations in several Latin American countries in order to question the possible meanings of social demands that put in the foreground the defense of life. ; Parafraseando el título del libro de Rancière "En los bordes de lo político" este artículo explora una posible noción de biopolítica, que no necesariamente se ocupa de la manera en que el poder está presente en los dispositivos de disciplinamiento de los cuerpos y regulación de la vida de las poblaciones tal y como Foucault lo planteó, o estrechando y confundiendo las nociones de Bíos y Zoé presentes en la reflexión que hizo Agamben. Por el contrario, intenta proponer una conceptualización que dé cuenta de la experiencia de producción y ensanchamiento de alternativas de vida inscritas en el campo de la lucha política, que se han gestado en distintos movimientos sociales. Recurre, entonces, a las recientes expresiones en las manifestaciones feministas en varios países de Latinoamérica a fin de interrogarse sobre los sentidos que toman demandas sociales que ponen en primer plano la defensa de la vida.

This publication belongs to the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network Working Papers Series (http://waterlat.org/publications/working-papers-series/), Vol. 6, No 3. This issue was developed by members of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network's Thematic Area 7 (TA7), Art, Communication, Culture, and Education. This is the second issue of the TA7 Series. It features three articles presenting research results from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Article 1, by Ximena I. Cabral, is a long piece developed in a format close to that of a photographic essay, as the author seeks to capture and analyse the "expressive resources" used by the actors during a cycle of social protests against inequality and injustice related to water Politics and management in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, between 2005 and 2007. The article examines in detail the conflicts arising from the privatization of Cordoba's water and sanitation utility in 1997, when the government granted a 30-year long concession to a private consortium led by a multinational water company to deliver these services. After the large-scale crisis that affected the country in 2001, caused by a decade of highly destructive neoliberal policies implemented during the 1990s, Argentina's currency was heavily devaluated, prompting a renegotiation of the contract that in practice amounted to a dollarization of the tariff, which was strongly rejected by the population. This triggered a long cycle of popular protests that faced a very determined alliance between politicians and local and international businesses, which would eventually impose its conditions through different means, including repression. In Article 2, Zenaida Luisa Lauda-Rodríguez examines a successful case of "precautionary" social struggle against a mining project in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The local community, in alliance with other actors, succeeded in preventing the implementation of the mining project through a campaign based on a demand to apply the "precautionary principle", which passed the burden of ...