The categories of equality and inequality, a complex relationship

Abstract

In this article we intend to address the complex relationship between the categories inequalities-equality. In contemporary times, there are multiple ways of approaching the analysis of inequalities, so the debate leads us to review not only the starting points for these conceptualizations, but also their ethical and political effects in the construction of social reality. current.

For this tour we start from a historical and critical position, and from a rights approach. Thus, we begin by reviewing the construction of the category of equality from the irruption of modern thought in the West, with the tensions that neoliberalism brought from the last decades of the 20th century, in order to advance on the different readings that arise in a second moment. regarding inequalities in the contemporary debate.

Finally, and as a synthesis -which we do not intend to be closed- we propose some reflections that allow us to continue deepening these necessary analyzes for a deep and situated understanding of inequalities and the processes of citizenship in our societies, as a field of dispute for rights that they aspire to be institutionalized.