https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n39.07
Alex Paulsen Espinoza
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6982-0651
Universidad Bernardo O´Higgins, Chile
alex.paulsen@ubo.cl
Abstract:
Geographic scale analyses in social sciences have mainly focused on size and level, somewhat leaving relational terms aside. Here we present a reflection based on the concept of ritornello, inaugurated by Deleuze and Guattari in their A Thousand Plateaus. This notion has clear spatial and scalar ramifications in these authors’ writings, which can be productive to analyze scales in interdisciplinary settings. Additionally, a reflection upon scales is added to end with a discussion of (re)politicization of scales through the ritornello/voice that can have important ramifications in the political structures in today’s liberal democracies, as seen in the case of the Ukamau Dwellers Movement.
Keywords: ritornello, scales, repoliticization, fights, civil society.
