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Representación, orden y contingencia
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.
2012 (Spanish)In: Revista SAAP (Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político), ISSN 1666-7883, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 413-430Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this study, it is emphasized that the link between representation, state, citizens, and democracy does not exclusively refer to popular participation and principles of institutional designation. On the basis of conceptions of representation by thinkers such as Arendt and Hobbes, it is argued that political representation does not only precede, but constantly intervene in the notion of a democracy located in sovereign states. When we examine the conceptual relationship between citizens and state we find a series of decisive dilemmas associated with the life contingency of citizens, on the one hand, and the need for a political order, on the other. This is why the conception of political representation developed in this article is not based on principles of identity or correspondence, but on contingent public spaces and metonymical processes, which make possible to gather dispersed attributes in order to generate notions of overarching political order, such as the sovereign state.

Abstract [es]

En el presente estudio se enfatiza que el nexo entre representación, Estado, ciudadanos y democracia no se refiere únicamente a la participación popular y principios de designación institucional. Partiendo de concepciones de representación en pensadores como Arendt y Hobbes, se argumenta que la representación política no sólo precede, sino que interviene constantemente en la noción de una democracia situada en estados soberanos. Al examinar la relación conceptual entre ciudadanos y Estado nos topamos con una serie de dilemas decisivos vinculados con la contingencia de la vida de los ciudadanos, por una parte, y la necesidad de un orden político, por otra. De ahí que la concepción de representación política desarrollada en este artículo no se fundamenta en principios de identidad o de correspondencia sino en espacios públicos contingentes y en procesos metonímicos, que permiten juntar atributos dispersos para generar nociones de un orden político omnicomprensivo, tales como el Estado soberano.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Buenos Aires: Sociedad Argentina de Analisis Politico , 2012. Vol. 6, no 2, p. 413-430
Keywords [en]
representation, democracy, citizens, rhetoric, public space
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Political Science
Research subject
Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-38221OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-38221DiVA, id: diva2:759059
Available from: 2014-10-29 Created: 2014-10-29 Last updated: 2023-05-04Bibliographically approved

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