{"title":"Convivencia y vigilancia: cruising y producción del espacio público","authors":"Luis Periáñez Llorente","doi":"10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"We deal here with how public space publicity is produced and understood, and how such production and understanding have a normative and performative impact on the users of that space. The approach we have chosen intends to co-ordinate these aspects with the help of the ethnographies that have been carried out in recent times on cruising, as this activity, which implies a furtive appropriation of certain public spaces for the development of anonymous sexual activities among men, offers a privileged observatory of the gap between public space as a performative device and agents, which are not always merely molded by such devices. We find in this practice an optimal window for the analysis of the way in which the public and the private are construed spatially and conceptually in the dialectic between moral frameworks and subjective practices.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"73-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41964707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking populism and democracy in politically turbulent times","authors":"Mark Devenney, Clare Woodford, Ramón A. Feenstra","doi":"10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of populist politics across the globe. The early 21st century saw the pink tide of left wing populism in Latin America, the Southern European populisms that rejected the politics of austerity after 2013, and the right wing populisms that now dominate not only European but global polities. Although each instance of populist politics is distinct, all share an appeal to the people, to the true people, who both oppose and are dominated by the political elite. The nature of this elite also varies – in some cases it is predatory capital; in other cases it is the multicultural left; in yet others the anonymous bureaucrats in Brussels undermining national sovereignty. This special issue of RECERCA poses one question: how does populism relate to democracy? Is it democracy’s other face?","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"25 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43274378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las justificaciones de la muerte asistida","authors":"Jose Antonio Cerrillo Vidal","doi":"10.6035/recerca.2020.25.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.2020.25.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"El concepto de muerte asistida comprende una heterogénea variedad de prácticas, cuyo denominador común es garantizar al ciudadano su derecho a participar en las decisiones relacionadas con su propio proceso de muerte, para que sea tan acorde a sus preferencias como sea posible. Se trata de uno de los temas más polémicos y discutidos en las últimas décadas, tanto en el ámbito académico como en la opinión pública. En este artículo se examinan las dos principales justificaciones favorables a su legalización: garantizar la autonomía individual como en los demás ámbitos de la vida y evitar un sufrimiento innecesario al moribundo. Se argumentará que, si bien ambas se encuentran relacionadas y en las dos se anudan la ética del cuidado con la de la autonomía del sujeto, la justificación por la autonomía es más sólida y resiste mejor las objeciones de los contrarios a la legalización de este derecho. \u0000The concept of assisted death includes a heterogeneous variety of practices, whose common denominator is to guarantee citizens their right to participate in decisions related to their own death process, to make it as consistent with their preferences as possible. It’s one of the most controversial and discussed topics in recent decades, both in the academic field and in public opinion. This paper examines the two main justifications for its legalization: to guarantee individual autonomy as in other areas of life, and to avoid unnecessary suffering to the dying. It will be argued that, although both are related and both tie the ethics of care with the autonomy of the subject, the justification for autonomy is stronger and resists better the objections of those opposed to the legalization of this right. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79633659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las justificaciones de la muerte asistida","authors":"J. Vidal","doi":"10.6035/HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"El concepto de muerte asistida comprende una heterogenea variedad de practicas, cuyo denominador comun es garantizar al ciudadano su derecho a participar en las decisiones relacionadas con su propio proceso de muerte, para que sea tan acorde a sus preferencias como sea posible. Se trata de uno de los temas mas polemicos y discutidos en las ultimas decadas, tanto en el ambito academico como en la opinion publica. En este articulo se examinan las dos principales justificaciones favorables a su legalizacion: garantizar la autonomia individual como en los demas ambitos de la vida y evitar un sufrimiento innecesario al moribundo. Se argumentara que, si bien ambas se encuentran relacionadas y en las dos se anudan la etica del cuidado con la de la autonomia del sujeto, la justificacion por la autonomia es mas solida y resiste mejor las objeciones de los contrarios a la legalizacion de este derecho. The concept of assisted death includes a heterogeneous variety of practices, whose common denominator is to guarantee citizens their right to participate in decisions related to their own death process, to make it as consistent with their preferences as possible. It’s one of the most controversial and discussed topics in recent decades, both in the academic field and in public opinion. This paper examines the two main justifications for its legalization: to guarantee individual autonomy as in other areas of life, and to avoid unnecessary suffering to the dying. It will be argued that, although both are related and both tie the ethics of care with the autonomy of the subject, the justification for autonomy is stronger and resists better the objections of those opposed to the legalization of this right.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43103617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paradigmas de producción urbana y sus resistencias: ciudad, metrópolis y postmetrópolis","authors":"Jorge León Casero, J. Urabayen","doi":"10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Los fenómenos urbanos son modos concretos de reproducción social y, como toda reproducción, tienen un carácter histórico. En este artículo se defenderá que es posible identificar tres grandes paradigmas históricos en el desarrollo urbano del Occidente moderno —la ciudad, la metrópolis y la postmetrópolis— y que su forma de gobernanza coincide con los tres tipos de poder identificados por Foucault: el soberano, el disciplinar y el biopolítico. Además, se analizará cómo cada una de estas tres dobles configuraciones de la reproducción social genera unos puntos neurálgicos, cuya manipulación produce un impacto sobre el sistema mucho mayor que cualquier otra posible acción, tanto si está orientada al dominio institucional del poder constituido como a la resistencia frente al mismo. El presente trabajo aborda la lógica de funcionamiento de estos tres modelos urbanos, identificando sus respectivos centros neurálgicos como punto de partida desde el que es viable constituir el sujeto político antagónico más efectivo posible en cada uno de ellos. ","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78275409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presupuestos Participativos e instituciones políticas locales. Posibles formas de articulación en casos de Argentina y Uruguay","authors":"E. Elías","doi":"10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"El objetivo del articulo es analizar las formas de articulacion entre el presupuesto participativo y las instituciones politico-representativas locales (gobierno y partidos) en las experiencias de las ciudades de Cordoba, Gualeguaychu, Paysandu y Montevideo. En primera instancia, se presenta un modelo teorico de analisis con tipos ideales, que expresan formas posibles de relacionamiento. Seguidamente, utilizando el modelo planteado, se analizan los cuatro casos, en dos momentos diferentes, separados por una eleccion de gobierno local. Finalmente, se senala, en funcion de los casos estudiados, como en escenarios de participacion plural y alcance restringido la mayor institucionalizacion generaria un estimulo para ir paulatinamente ampliando el alcance. The aim of the article is to analyze the forms of articulation between the participatory budget and the local political-representative institutions (government and parties) in the experiences of the cities of Cordoba, Gualeguaychu, Paysandu and Montevideo. A theoretical analysis model with ideal types expressing possible forms of articulation is presented in the first instance. Then, using the model presented, the four cases are analyzed in two moments of time separated by a local government election. Finally, it is pointed out how in scenarios of plural participation and restricted scope greater institutionalization could generate an incentive to gradually expand the scope.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"25 1","pages":"111-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71039778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Populismo: ¿izquierdas y derechas?","authors":"P. Biglieri","doi":"10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"El articulo parte de la discusion actual sobre si la proliferacion de los asi denominados populismos de derecha invalida o no la tesis de Laclau de que el populismo es un tipo de articulacion que puede dar un sentido emancipatorio a la iniciativa politica. Dicho debate que se ha presentado fundamentalmente bajo la oposicion binaria populismos de derechas frente a populismos de izquierda tiene a dos voces contrapuestas, las de Fassin y Mouffe, que el texto se propone revisar, desde una perspectiva laclausiana, a partir de dos preguntas que se desprenden de las posiciones politicas de los autores: ?es posible, como desearia Fassin, eludir o eliminar el populismo? ?Es posible distinguir entre un populismo de derechas y uno de izquierdas, como propone Mouffe? The article takes as a point of departure the current discussion about the proliferation of the so called right-wing populisms that put into question Laclau’s thesis that populism is a sort of articulation that may bring about emancipatory directions to politics. This debate, that has recently taken the format of an opposition between right-wing populism vs. leftwing populisms, has two main competing voices —Fassin and Mouffe— that the text reviews from a Laclausian perspective. The two questions addressed, that rise from the political position of each author, are the following: is it possible to eliminate populism as Fassin would prefer? Is it possible to establish a differentiation between right-wing and left-wing populism as Mouffe affirms?","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87630582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Más allá de enfoques utópicos y distópicos sobre innovación democrática. Beyond Utopian and Dystopian approaches to democratic innovation","authors":"Gisela Zaremberg, Yanina Welp","doi":"10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/recerca.2020.25.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the myths regarding both the conceptualization and the expected effects that are implicitly or explicitly presented in analyses of the so-called ‘democratic innovations’, that is, the new institutions that aim to increase public participation beyond regular elections. It is argued that these myths, together with the (fictitious) confrontation between direct and indirect politics, have generated false oppositions and reductionisms that mask the debate and limit empirical approximations to democratic innovation. A research agenda based on the concept of ‘participatory ecologies’ is suggested as a way to gain an understanding of the mechanisms of participation in a systematic way. Este articulo analiza los mitos que se han construido, tanto en un plano conceptual como de efectos esperados, en torno a las denominadas innovaciones democraticas , entendidas como instituciones destinadas a incrementar la participacion ciudadana mas alla de las elecciones. Argumentamos que tanto estos mitos como la (ficticia) confrontacion entre politica directa e indirecta ha generado falsas oposiciones y reduccionismos que enmascaran el debate y limitan el estudio empirico de la innovacion democratica. Una agenda de investigacion basada en el concepto de ecologias participativas se sugiere para el entendimiento de los mecanismos de participacion en forma sistematica.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78024484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"¿Te ha tocado? El sorteo llega a la política de Madrid.","authors":"Ernesto Ganuza, Maria Menendez-Blanco","doi":"10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"In early 2019 Madrid launched the first permanent citizen participation scheme in which members are chosen by lot: the Observatory of the City. Although the scheme was abandoned by the new government after the May 2019 elections, the Madrid experiment raises important questions about democracy. The project is another example of the growing prominence that the draw has acquired in many countries, as an ideal element to organise and order the participation of people in political affairs. In this paper we describe the first steps of this scheme and also highlight the features that make the draw in Madrid a unique experience both because of the implications of the use of the draw, and from the point of view of similar schemes that are being carried out in other parts of the world. Madrid ha puesto en marcha, desde inicios del ano 2019, la primera experiencia de participacion ciudadana permanente cuyos miembros son elegidos por sorteo, el Observatorio de la Ciudad. A pesar de que la experiencia fue abandonada por el nuevo Gobierno despues de las elecciones de mayo del 2019, la experiencia madrilena plantea importantes cuestiones sobre la democracia. Esta experiencia se suma al creciente protagonismo que ha adquirido el sorteo en muchos paises, como un elemento idoneo para organizar y ordenar la participacion de la gente en los asuntos politicos. En este trabajo exponemos los primeros pasos de esta experiencia, asi como destacamos los rasgos que hacen del sorteo en Madrid una experiencia singular, tanto por las implicaciones que tiene el uso del sorteo como desde el punto de vista de las experiencias similares que se hacen en otras partes del mundo.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"25 1","pages":"95-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71039726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Críticas inmanentes al pensamiento de Jürgen Habermas: la teoría de la lucha por el reconocimiento y la ética de la razón cordial","authors":"C. Ortega","doi":"10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6035/RECERCA.2020.25.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"El presente articulo trata de presentar los modelos teoricos de Axel Honneth y Adela Cortina —teoria de la lucha por el reconocimiento y etica de la razon cordial, respectivamente— como una respuesta critica a algunas deficiencias localizadas en la teoria de la accion comunicativa y la etica del discurso habermasiana. Tras exponer los elementos mas importantes de los modelos de Habermas, sistematizare algunos de los problemas fundamentales que se derivan de ellos. En segundo lugar, reconstruire el significado de la teoria de la lucha por el reconocimiento en el sentido de una superacion de la dicotomica separacion habermasiana entre sistema y mundo de la vida ; para realizar, en tercer lugar, una exposicion de la etica de la razon cordial entendida como correctivo tanto al excesivo procedimentalismo de la etica discursiva, como a la negativa habermasiana a incluir tambien la coordinacion comunicativa de las acciones en ambitos considerados sistemicos . This paper attempts to present the conceptual frameworks proposed by Axel Honneth and Adela Cortina —theory of the struggle for recognition and ethics of cordial reason, respectively— as a critical response to certain deficiencies of Habermas´s theory of communicative action and discourse ethics. Firstly the key elements of Habermas´s theory of communicative action and discourse ethics will be presented, as well as some of its main problems. Secondly the meaning of Honneth´s theory of the struggle for recognition will be reconstructed as an overcoming of one of this problem, namely the Habermasian strict distinction between system and lifeworld . Thirdly the sense of Cortina´s ethics of cordial reason will be presented as a corrective to Habermas´s proceduralism, as well as to the exclusion of communicative rationality from systemic spheres.","PeriodicalId":42552,"journal":{"name":"Recerca-Revista de Pensament & Analisi","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90802014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}