Game of democracy: impressions about the recent protests in brazil
This article discusses the protests that took place in June 2013 in Brazil. Based on some impressions of the protesters on social networks, the text points out: the 'strangeness' about the lack of axis in the protests;reports of co-option ('coup'); ethical crisis and non-partisan...
| Autor: | |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos de Sociologia (Recife. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.periodicos.ufpe.br:article/235578 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revsocio/article/view/235578 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | protests democracy discourse protestos democracia discurso |
| Sumario: | This article discusses the protests that took place in June 2013 in Brazil. Based on some impressions of the protesters on social networks, the text points out: the 'strangeness' about the lack of axis in the protests;reports of co-option ('coup'); ethical crisis and non-partisanship; social control and violence. These issues are addressed from the perspective of classical and contemporary theories of social movements. The central argument, however, relies on Derrida's notion of game and its consequences on the neo-gramscian concept of hegemony: the existence of various contents disputing the filling of a center - the ‘empty signifier’; a center that plays a symbolic and contingent role of give unity to the chaotic social plurality; and a social that can redefine itself by playing game’s rules or going beyond of the establishment, subverting and renewingdemocracy. |
|---|