How Far Is Velachery From Stella Mary's College

Radicalized identities and citizenship

Vivian Taylor

Argentina society, like all contemporary societies, has suffered an acute crisis of identity, of the ways its citizens imagined within groups.
modern times, the choices were varied and could even overlap: one was a citizen, but also worker, young, male / female, college / a, Peron, a practitioner of any religion, fat / ae fan of a club. Many times, all together. But today we are witnessing a world in which the world of work is dedicated to expel, being young is a crime, the genre allows migration can not be a university because not enough money or not worth it, be Peronist means an outbreak of Menem meanings or treason, being overweight is a stigma, the very notion of citizenship has entered into crisis, and the great traditions of civic inclusion become the harsh policies of social exclusion.
seem to be unlikely. Just be a fan of some football team or participate in a tribe [1] . To a lesser extent, perhaps, participate in any religious faith. It's easy, and can have a lot of colleagues who do not ask where it comes from one.

The problem that we face is twofold:
On the one hand, that these identities are not and can be political and then imply that the discussion about inclusion and citizenship in this citizenship is diluted less, comfortable and a liar.
The other, more serious is that these identities are radical: there are only against other identity that serves the opposition. And when the identity is so lonely with no other choice that to assert itself as a social subject, the other becomes a quite another, and sliding to the consideration of the other as a rival and an enemy is inevitable. Hence the "do not exist." Do not exist is the battle cry that accompanies the "endurance guy."

deny the existence of the other, away from contact tolerant democratic society, it means accepting the other, you can just disappear, can be suppressed. Or worse, to be suppressed.


[1] A teenage tribe is a group of teenagers who take brand identity as a language, a dress, forms of art, that is, on all an aesthetic stance that allows them to identify themselves as belonging to the same while the difference from the rest.