Resumen

PEREZ JIMENEZ, César. Identities In Debate, Citizenships For Inclusion: To be Queer in a Straight World . Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.3, pp.513-527. ISSN 1315-9518.

The study of identities has been consolidated around a core issue for the democratic construction of a nation: to be a citizen with rights and duties from the perspective logics of identity embodied in social practices and imaginaries. All this implies analyzing the way identities and citizenships have been constructed, emphasizing regulatory products emanating from hegemonic discourses that belong to disciplinary codes and normalize social life, among which language and words count as mediators for such processes.  They intend to homogenize cultural patterns that define the collective, hiding those weird identities that are usually set apart from a good citizen’s imaginary, inspired by the Napoleonic heritage. The purpose of this study is to analyze, based on a trialogue, how different identities are interwoven and overlapped in a regulated world supported by a controlling discourse on good manners, translated into the construction of an imaginary about normal, universal and unified citizenship that reveals how the control society operates its own mechanisms of vigilance and punishment. Finally, a space is generated for the emancipating reflection of those who, being different, aspire to have a space in what is supposed to be normality; emphasizing reconciled identities as a basis for constructing inclusive citizen logics, because we suppose that these harbor the sense of tolerance that complements diversity and difference in the human condition.

Palabras clave : Identities; citizenships; inclusion; tolerance; queer theory.