ResumenEl presente artículo propone presentar una serie de resultados de una investigación socio jurídica y empírica conducida en el área de profesiones, haciendo especial hincapié en la identidad profesional de abogados/as ligados al activismo, quienes se vinculan a organizaciones sociales en Argentina.Utilizaremos el marco teórico de la sociología reflexiva de Bourdieu, para preguntarnos por aquellos "espacios posibles" que desafían lo establecido como "jurídicamente pensable" en el campo jurídico. Finalmente, se presentarán resultados que nos permiten de manera conclusiva reflejar prácticas y discursos alternativos en el ejercicio profesional.

The article analyzes in a comparative way the dynamics of the mobilization of law in three social struggles that take place in Argentina, which seek to transform the unjust and unequal conditions of society. The article presents discussions of an empirical research conducted on the basis of a qualitative and quantitative methodology that reflects on the contributions and effective limits of the law: the struggle of peasant and indigenous, the struggle for sexual diversity and the struggle against police and institutional violence. The proposed objective is to problematize the space of transformation of the legally thinkable, inside and outside the legal field. Therefore, the presentation is divided into four sections, which in a comparative way, relates the political dynamics of protest and the mobilization of law in the three identified conflicts: the first, addresses the theoretical approach, the second, describes socio-legal conflicts, the third, analyzes the legal-political strategies of resistance, recognition and expansion of rights of the three social struggles.

This issue of Oñati Socio-legal Series is the result of the discussions and encounters from the workshop Sociology of law in Latin America and the Caribbean: current debates and future perspective. In view of the growth and potential that emerges from the global south realities, we believe it necessary to put forward questions over sociology of law’s state of the art and its expectations for the future in Latin America. We hope that the work agenda that unveils in this issue contributes to a critical sociology of law. This entails not only bringing out the academic rigour of interdisciplinary approaches; but also a social commitment with the transformation of Latin-American societies.

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