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TAMAYO FLORES, Sergio. Criticism of Citizenship and Democracy without Adjectives: Eight Scenes of a Civil Conflict in Mexico City. Secuencia [online]. 2006, n.66, pp.111-142. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i66.983.

The article attempts to contribute to the criticism of liberal democracy, based primarily on representation and parliamentarianism. On the basis of rhe expansion of these democratic ideas on a world scale, the article notes that democracy, as well as citizenship, are not rigid, immovable attributes, anchored in legal norms, but rather interpretative practices and elaborations of various groups. The central argument is to understand democracy and citizenship as practices, rather than as predetermined attributes. These practices and meanings are quite distinct. The various versions oppose and confront each other, thereby creating a sphere of conflict. In this respect, this work criticizes Sarcoris idea of democracy without adjectives. It takes up other authors that regard it as a sphere of conflict. In order to illustrate this, the text empirically reproduces the mega-march against the lack of safety on the streets held in Mexico City in 2004, organized by business groups linked to the right. The author establishes an alternative conception of this democracy without adjectives. However, the article does not attempt to establish rules for political philosophy but rather a sociological description of democracy as it actually exists. In the author's view, these images contain similar components to the political culture of middle-class conservative groups and elites.

Palabras llave : Democracy; citizenship; civic conflict; civic practices; ethnography of public demonstration.

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