Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial

This article aims to question the category of public space, posing two hypotheses about its constitution, and bringing up for discussion some interpretations about the work of Jacques Rancière and Ernesto Laclau. In the first place, we set out that every public space is discursively constructed, whi...

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Main Authors: María Virginia Morales, Juan Manuel Reynares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Pelotas 2010-12-01
Series:Pensamento Plural
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Online Access:http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3645/2981
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description This article aims to question the category of public space, posing two hypotheses about its constitution, and bringing up for discussion some interpretations about the work of Jacques Rancière and Ernesto Laclau. In the first place, we set out that every public space is discursively constructed, which, in our perspective, lays stress on its conflicting and political character. In the second place, we consider that continuous politicization of the public space has an emancipatory potential, emphasizing the institution of political subjectivities.
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spelling doaj.art-9732ab788111415ba4c64073721d616b2022-12-22T00:37:59ZengUniversidade Federal de PelotasPensamento Plural1982-27072238-46422010-12-01477790Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencialMaría Virginia Morales0Juan Manuel Reynares1Universidad Nacional de CórdobaUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaThis article aims to question the category of public space, posing two hypotheses about its constitution, and bringing up for discussion some interpretations about the work of Jacques Rancière and Ernesto Laclau. In the first place, we set out that every public space is discursively constructed, which, in our perspective, lays stress on its conflicting and political character. In the second place, we consider that continuous politicization of the public space has an emancipatory potential, emphasizing the institution of political subjectivities.http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3645/2981public spacediscursive constructionsubjectivityLaclauRancière
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Juan Manuel Reynares
Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
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discursive construction
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Laclau
Rancière
title Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
title_full Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
title_fullStr Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
title_full_unstemmed Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
title_short Politics and public space: discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
title_sort politics and public space discursive constitution and emancipatory potencial
topic public space
discursive construction
subjectivity
Laclau
Rancière
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