Conclusion

Abstract

This book set out to explore democracy from an alternative theoretical paradigm, in order to study the production of politics through the constitution of democratic subjectivities, in turn, forging spaces of disagreement and the subsequent redistribution of power, places, and functions. The formation of this democratic force was researched in the complex emergence of its constitutive elements in separate chapters. The meanings and implications emerging from democratic subjectivities’ moment of unity were presented in chapter 7. Within a context of the dissolution of grand narratives and traditional forms of solidarity, my approach narrated democratization in Brazil’s and Argentina’s posttransition contexts as instituting a moment of structuration that involved the following.