Hacia un nuevo concepto de lo político

Abstract

In the Western political tradition, politics has been identified with sovereignty, understood as the coercive control of a ruling elite over a clearly defined population and territory. Since the 19th century, emancipatory movements have extended the politics, in an intersectional manner, to all forms of social relations. In parallel, the triple process of urbanization, stateization and globalization of capitalist society have extended the field from the political, in an cosmopolitan manner, to the different territorial scales of social, technological and ecological interaction. All these changes require us to rethink the concept of politics and renew democracy in all spheres and scales of human life.