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Up to this point, we have studied the process of the activation of the contentious collective action expressed in the formation of three nonterritorial dynamics (self-organizing, networking, and demanding). These analytically differentiable dynamics, in practice more commonly found intertwined, concern the development of the “internal” components of democratic subjectivities. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the final element present in the formation of democratic subjectivities in the post-transition in Argentina and Brazil, namely the “antagonistic contextual exterior,” the formation of the “exterior” limit that acted as a discursive antagonistic demarcation between the “we” and the “they.”
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Ferrero, J.P. (2014). From Heterogeneous Complexity to Antagonistic Simplicity: The Institution of the Limit. In: Democracy against Neoliberalism in Argentina and Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137395023_7
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