Resumen

VAZQUEZ, Belín  y  PEREZ JIMENEZ, César. New Identities - Other Citizenships . Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.4, pp.653-667. ISSN 1315-9518.

To reflect on identities is to reflect about diverse citizen practices that emerge from social relationships drawn on the cultural canvas of historical plots. Therefore, it is questionable to propose a definition of identities and citizenships that pretends to be totalitarian, absolute and homogenizing, above all, because historically, illustrations have been produced about the domination and homogeneity of subjectivities, creating univocal models of subjects considered objects of cultural analysis. In this sense, it seems reasonable to claim that from these levels of articulation, both identity and citizenship lead us to sacralized truths, mediatised by the “inventions of tradition,” comprised within the universality and the totality of what is social. Such inventions are precisely those symbolic practices that are commonly accepted as normal and regulating for the phenomenological comprehension of the ontology of being, where diverse social hermeneutics converge. Considering this situation, this essay intends to specify theoretical-reflexive elements for an ethical proposal aimed at fostering a democratic coexistence based on shared interests, that outline what it is to be human in relation, beyond the naturalized social contract; aspects that are discussed from a de-colonial perspective regarding being-and-knowing, facing the understanding that the identities-citizenships connection ought to be assumed from comprehensive, pluralistic and inclusive schemes.

Palabras clave : Identities; citizenships; inter-subjective ethics; diversity; difference.