The citizen power of civil resistance

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Oscar Useche Aldana

Abstract

This paper is a product of investigation that present some reflections through which the author try to recognize, in the emergent exercises of citizenship, the keys of reading of a phenomenon that extends its roots in the diverse forms of affirmation of the life: the resistance. It is possible to recognize in some manifestations of the life a permanent practice of resistance, a capacity to face everything what it can threaten it or put it in risk, looking for, in addition, other routes to reproduce and to become. The resistance put in exercise for the citizens, are revealed like a project of citizen power that allows to unfold personal powers such as the freedom, the autonomy and the fragility, making possible even the unfolding of collective powers, able of to transform the cultural, economic and political conditions in certain circumstances.

Author Biography

Oscar Useche Aldana, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Doctor en Paz Conflictos y Democracia, Universidad de Granada (España), Magíster en Investigación Social Interdisciplinaria, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Economista, Universidad Autónoma de Colombia. Director Programa Soypaz y director de la Revista Polisemia, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios. Líder del Grupo de Investigación Ciudadanía, Paz y Desarrollo (Uniminuto).

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