Democracy as a historical ghost

Authors

  • Luis Fernando Tapia Mealla CIDES-UMSA Bolivia.

Keywords:

greek democracy, modern democracy, community democracy, Bolivia, communities

Abstract

Political life is configured by a set of processes organized around some institutional spaces and a set of material conditions, but also by a set of subjective and intersubjective representations and experiences that do not have an empirical reference, as long as there are no material processes that become real referents. Political life is organized through things that are seen and constructed by another set of phenomena that do not exist but as representations, but that, nevertheless, have a more or less important weight in the way in which people articulate a set of values from which they judge the political processes and the existence or not in them of some principles. On the other hand, it also exists as a set of representations that people have made as a synthesis of historical experiences, in relation to general ideas. Here I make some considerations on the articulation of these two types of facets around democracy in the current conjuncture.

 

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Author Biography

Luis Fernando Tapia Mealla, CIDES-UMSA Bolivia.

Licenciatura en Filosofía en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1981-1984. Mención honorífica.Titulo en  Provisión Nacional, UMSA, 27-2-91.

Licenciatura en Ciencia Política enla Universidad AutónomaMetropolitana -Iztapalapa, México, 1981-1985.

Mgter. en Ciencia Política en el Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas de Rio de Janeiro. Especialidad de Sistema de partidos y sistemas electorales (IUPERJ), 1992

Dr. en Ciencia Política en el IUPERJ. 1993-97.

Ocupación actual:  Subdirector de Investigación. Coordinador de la Maestría en Teoría Crítica en el Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, programa realizado en colaboración internacional con la UNAM

 

References

Aristóteles. (1988) La política, Madrid: Gredos.

McPherson, C. B. (1997) La democracia liberal y su época, Madrid: Alianza.

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Published

2019-08-10

How to Cite

Tapia Mealla, L. F. (2019). Democracy as a historical ghost. Interstices of Politics and Culture. Latin American Interventions, 8(15), 75–87. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/intersticios/article/view/24787

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 15 (2019): Racismo, negritud y género: África, América Latina y el Caribe

Section

Diálogos y debates

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