citizenship

Institutional Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America Today

Juan Felipe Quintero Leguizamón, Estefan Baleta López, Ramiro Rodríguez Beltrán, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

“Watchdogs” – Citizenship and Discourses of Development

Jorge Legoas P. cierajol@hermes.ulaval.ca Université Laval, Québec, Canadá Abstract: This article analyzes the discourse of citizenship and development made by the international cooperation network and that is used in NGO and State development projects. From a post-structuralist approach I show that the predominant controlling role of transparency principles and vigilance practices significantly affects the notions […]

Citizenship: A reading in Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau’s key

Sandra del Pilar Gómez Contreras, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Regimes of National Belonging in Contemporary Venezuela and Dominican Republic

Abstract: This paper examines two explicitly exclusive/inclusive national belonging regimes, by discussing two case studies of current negotiations on alien status and nationality in Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In the latter, from the governmental initiative in 2004 for “alien people regularization and naturalization”, Venezuelan citizenship was bestowed on undocumented immigrants, some of them as a […]