Abstract

KATZER, Leticia. Among Universalisms and Particularisms: Notes about "The Common" Theories Concerning Contemporary Ethnopolitics. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2014, vol.16, n.1, pp.45-52. ISSN 1851-9490.

In the contemporary political and ethnological theory, the conceptualization of the ethnic ascribed people actions in terms of "interest actions" is the conceptual core of the definition of politics. Communalizations, cultural movements, radical pluralist democracy, differentiated collective rights claims, are all notions that refer to collective action and the production of identities based on cultural orientations or common ethos in the field of public sphere. The interpretation of such expressions, as institutionalized and public forms of collective action, is based on a concept of political life as "common life", as "public collective action". The following article proposes to inquire the categorical margins on which the contemporary ethno-political theory is built and founded, analyzing not only the notions of "common" put into circulation but also the tension between universalism and particularism that do emerge themselves.

Keywords : Ethnopolitics; Knowledge field; Community theory; Indigenous people.

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