Multitudes

Abstract

Crowds. In this work it is proposed a reflection around the emergency of new subjects and subjectivities at the beginning of this century. According with the author of this article we can not keep conjuring up the same theoretical referents to understand the new reality we face: “migrant populations which are increasing daily in length, emerging as diasporas, crossing borders all the time, merging here and there without fixed addresses, without identity cards, always located on the borders, in the gaps, as spectral inhabitants of thresholds”. The author proposes to think the social arena from these new subjectivities, following their steps, hearing their voices, and trying to understand them from the already known organizational and political forms, modifying them.

En este trabajo se ofrece una reflexión en torno a la emergencia de nuevos sujetos y subjetividades en los albores del nuevo siglo. De acuerdo con la autora, no podemos seguir apelando a los mismos referentes teóricos para comprender la nueva realidad que enfrentamos: “poblaciones trashumantes que aumentan día a día en amplitud, surgidas en la diáspora, que cruzan fronteras incesantemente, que emergen aquí y allá, sin domicilio fijo, sin credencial de identidad, ubicadas siempre en los límites, en los intersticios, habitantes imprecisos del umbral”. La autora propone pensar lo social desde estas nuevas subjetividades, seguir sus pasos, oír su voz, e intentar comprenderlos desde las formas organizativas y políticas conocidas, modificándolas.