Folds of the citizenship. Analytical notes for its review

Abstract

The notion of citizenship is based on the ideas of membership within a community and regarded as a desirable practice. In the present work, the problematization of citizenship is addressed, arguing that it is stems from exclusion and conflict. This is the trigger to advance the question of becoming a subject-citizen and the conditions of (im) possibility from which it emerges. Thus, we propose to think of an identity practice of citizenship from analytical folds, made up in the presence of an antagonistic barrier that constitutes all social order; the intermediate stands between what is public and what is private and, finally, the possibility of the emergence of a new social order. We reach the conclusion that these folds help revisit the concept of citizenship, think about its precarious and contingent nature and, in turn, collect the processes of identification of the subjects.