Abstract

FERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, María Inés; GAZTANAGA, Julieta  and  QUIROS, Julieta. Politics as a Living Process: Ethnographic Dialogues and an Encounter of Conceptual Experimentation. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.231, pp.277-304. ISSN 0185-1918.

Drawing on a series of conversations amongst three anthropologists committed to the study of political processes in contemporary Argentina, this article suggests knowledge tools and practices oriented to interrogate politics as a living process. Through a heuristic use of the notion of social creativity, we call the attention about the potential of ethnographic inquiry to address the nature of political processes, particularly their dynamics simultaneously directed and undetermined, and projected and emergent. By means of a heterodox comparison exercise using our ethnographic materials, we defend a type of analytical curiosity less concerned with capturing the products of action, and more interested, instead, with ethnographically mapping out what people actually (co)produce while doing it –“the politics of elapsing”, for that matter.

Keywords : ethnography; politics; living process; social creativity; Argentina.

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