De la violencia a la palabra. Hacia la recuperación del espacio político

Abstract

The present research article studies, in the context of the situation the democracies in Latin America, necessary conditions to promote, from diverse situations of mere survival, the construction of effective political life as an expression of spaces designed and practiced from and for coexistence. The characteristics and consequences of situations of “desciudadanía” generated by the violence produced by the imposition of relations of power or relations of market competitiveness that significantly restrict the political space are analyzed with a qualitative methodology. Emphasizing the steps to advance spaces for deliberation and the construction of agreements, in the conclusions the article attaches particular importance to the implementation of a political language of coexistence that redefines the traditional discursive functions to highlight its function of transformation with to the reconstruction of active citizenship.