State of (In)security and Empire: New Social Issue and the Dilemmas of Democracy
In times in which a disturbing social and political crisis affects our societies, the age of global violence seems to be writing a new chapter in history. Nevertheless, today’s conflicts do not resemble yesterday’s. The conflicts of today are about violence and social unrest that overwhelm the state...
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Centro de Estudios Avanzados. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revesint/article/view/37034 |
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| Sumario: | In times in which a disturbing social and political crisis affects our societies, the age of global violence seems to be writing a new chapter in history. Nevertheless, today’s conflicts do not resemble yesterday’s. The conflicts of today are about violence and social unrest that overwhelm the states’ control and their response capacity. Thus, —today— the concept of war is close to being a social issue, which is becoming a matter of the poor and the excluded. Hence, the new social question, crossed by the deepening of the contradictions of post-Fordist societies, is expressed by the worsening of the living conditions (poverty, exclusion, inequality) what is translated as a security that states can no longer provide. This new phenomenon seemed to suggest that the decisions of the states’ collective life do not reside in their citizens any longer, as the democratic principles suggest. These decisions are framed in the interests of the imperial order of the collective economic capital that is being progressively unified in every region of the world.In this framework, this paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the new of the new social question and the slide to the State of Insecurity based on Negri and Hardt’s notion of Empire. |
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