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The parliamentary momentum
2019
Democracy, participation, deliberation and representation have been the leading slogans of recent decades in academic political theorising. Remarkable studies have been written in terms of each of ...
Yo, intelectual: Pío Baroja frente a las masas y la democracia
2014
This paper aims to chart how the Basque writer Pío Baroja’s attitude as an intellectual evolved over the final years of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth century, at a time when a new ‘social subject’ was emerging and becoming consolidated in Spain. It therefore analyses Baroja’s thought in relation to two of the topics of greatest concern to Spanish and European intellectuals of the day: the relationship of the individual to the mass and intellectuals’ attitude to democracy.
Towards a reconstructive approach in political philosophy : Rosanvallon and Honneth on the pathologies of todays democracy
2016
This paper compares the democratic theories of Pierre Rosanvallon and Axel Honneth. The aim is to show how their work could form the basis of a ‘reconstructivist’ approach in political philosophy that rehabilitates the insights of 19th-century thinkers such as Guizot and Hegel concerning the benefits of combining political philosophy with history and sociology. Whereas the dominant procedural approaches in political philosophy tend to disconnect normative theory from the actual study of society and its history, Rosanvallon and Honneth argue that in order to understand the problems that face our democratic societies today we need a closer connection between theory and practice. Both have the…
Democratic institutions and recognition of individual identities
2016
This paper draws from two central intuitions that characterize modern western societies. The first is the normative claim that our identities should be recognized in an authentic way. The second intuition is that our common matters are best organized through democratic decision-making and democratic institutions. It is argued here that while deliberative democracy is a promising candidate for just organization of recognition relationships, it cannot fulfil its promise if recognition is understood either as recognition of ‘authentic’ collective identities or as recognition of too atomistic or individualized subjects. If deliberative democracy is to be understood as successfully providing au…
Rewriting Oromo History in the North: Diasporic Discourse about National Identity and Democracy in Ethiopia
2015
This article analyzes the way the Oromo intellectuals living in diaspora have reflected on and positioned themselves in the ethno-political conflict and related debate between the dominant Amharic- and Tigrinya-speaking “Abyssinian” groups and the descendants of the various Oromo groups, which were conquered by the former during the nineteenth century. Even though they are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, a large part of the Oromo perceive themselves as discriminated against and exploited by the groups holding political power, and many have fled the country. In the debate, the Oromo diaspora has had an important role. Theoretically, the article takes off from the concept of “orientati…
Recognition and democracy – An introduction
2016
This is an introduction to a special issue on recognition and democracy. We outline the constitutive and enabling relations between democracy and recognition. We distinguish between pre-political and political forms of identity and recognition, between horizontal and vertical forms of recognition, and between democratic and other ways or arranging the vertical and horizontal aspects of political life. We also distinguish between the roles of a subject and a co-author of law. The intruduction also includes an overview of the individual articles in this special issue. The issue tries to fill some theoretical gaps in theories of democracy and recognition, with a special emphasis on feminist p…
El exilio en primera persona. Un análisis del film Journal Inachevé de Marilú Mallet / Exile in the first person. An analysis of Journal Inachevé by …
2016
Este artículo estudia el proceso de recuperación de la cultura gallega en el exilio, la creación del proyecto empresarial del Laboratorio de Formas y la pervivencia del mismo, desde su puesta en marcha durante el franquismo hasta la democracia. Se aborda el importante papel que desempeñó para la recuperación de la memoria histórica gallega y se hace referencia a la difícil situación que está protagonizando. Palabras clave: Exilio, Patrimonio, Políticas de la Memoria, Cultura, Democracia. This article studies the process of recovery of Galician culture in exile, the creation of business project Laboratory methods and its survival, since Franco's dictatorship regime to democracy. It's an impo…
Campo literario y reconstrucción democrática. Dos poéticas estratégicas y una interpelación en la poesía chilena
2018
Este artículo se enmarca en el estudio de las transformaciones que ocurren en aquellos sectores del campo literario implicados en procesos de reconstrucción democrática. Más en concreto, se estudian las relaciones entre estrategias poéticas y políticas que se pueden constatar en el contexto chileno de la primera década de dictadura, un período cuyo inicio se sitúa en el golpe de estado militar del 11 de septiembre de 1973, que marcará una fractura política y también simbólica que será objeto de diferentes representaciones creativas y críticas. Se propone un acercamiento breve a dos estrategias opuestas de intervención: la que pretende restablecer vínculos de continuidad a partir de las anto…
El lado oscuro de la nación. ¿Se puede descolonizar la identidad española?
2019
La identidad española no solo implica la definición de lo que somos, sino también de lo que nos falta, de todo aquello que sus narrativas autorizadas han obviado de forma recurrente. La finalidad de este deliberado ejercicio totalizador ha sido siempre la misma: reproducir la hegemonía de sus élites dirigentes. Así ha sucedido desde el inicio de la expansión atlántica protagonizada por el imperio colonial hispano, durante la articulación pionera del país conforme al programa liberal, con su primera gran crisis y resurrección nacionalista, y en el momento actual de normalización democrática neoliberal. En este artículo, voy a tratar de constatar la existencia de dicha exclusión en torno a es…
El primer ciclo de exhumaciones y homenajes a fusilados republicanos en Navarra
2019
During the Spanish Civil War and postwar period, tens of thousands of supporters of the Second Republic were shot and thrown into common graves, whereas their friends and relatives were not allowed to pay them tribute or carry out a proper burial. After Franco’s death, and despite the killings having happened a long time ago, the desire to dig up those relatives’ remains, perform a proper funeral service, and bury them in a cemetery had not changed. It could even be said that the chances opened up once democracy was reestablished heightened such wish. In many towns and villages republican’s relatives managed to find out where the illegal graves were, to hold massively attended funeral servi…