IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Movements towards the People. A proposal to think of political subjects in Bolivia and Argentina
Autor/es:
MARÍA ANTONIA MUÑOZ
Libro:
Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America: Democracy from Below.
Editorial:
Palgrave Macmillan
Referencias:
Lugar: New York ; Año: 2016; p. 89 - 112
Resumen:
In the chapter titled Movements towards the People. A Proposal to Think of Political Subjects in Bolivia and Argentina, María Antonia Muñoz enriches and expands the framework of this book by introducing the concepts of destituent and constituent powers. Muñoz uses these concepts to do a comparative analysis of the ?The Water and Gas Wars? in Bolivia and the ?Piqueteros Movement? in Argentina. She concludes that in both cases these movements had the capacity to establish a destituent power , but only one of them, the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia, had the capacity to become a constituent power. In Argentina, the Piqueteros movement created a crisis of the sovereignty of the nation-state (the rule of law). As a destituent people, they demonstrated that those who have property or ?sociological? qualities are not the only ones with access to the political power of the community. In contrast, in Bolivia, the People, as opposed to the hegemonic elite, were able to establish a democratic logic (even when they were not a constituted power) through which anyone could take the place of the popular sovereign. Simply put: exercising the state of exception while leaving the specter of the popular sovereign in a rising community. Once this is accomplished, the game is open and anyone can occupy the place of popular sovereignty (or enforce the ?law?)