Identidades culturais e democracia : reflexões sobre o texto de M. Wiewiorka

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Aida
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10437/224
• topic: HISTÓRIA DA CULTURA; IDENTIDADE CULTURAL; IDENTIDADE SOCIAL; HISTÓRIA POLÍTICA E SOCIAL; MULTICULTURALISMO; GLOBALIZAÇÃO; DEMOCRACIA; CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL IDENTITY; POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY; MULTICULTURALISM; GLOBALISATION; DEMOCRACY

The question that we raise here concerns chiefly the political conditions, namely the actions of the western democracies in the context of the prevailing economic, cultural and military globalization. We recognize therefore the incoherence of the democratic societies, creators of social inequalities and violators of fundamental rights in the name of an increasingly powerful transcontinental elite. By losing the social identity, an essential component of the cultural identity, the socially excluded also lose their cultural identity. Even when they have possibilities of being represented in the public space of the representative democracies through the right for cultural claims, as Wiewiorka tells us, the problem is better stated by Norberto Bobbio, who does not emphasize the rights of claim or protest, but rather the need to determine who is the guarantor of those rights. The right to work is an essentiaL component of cultural identity.