Las transformaciones de lo público. Imágenes de protesta en la ciudad de México

Abstract

Political protest marches are the paradigm of a repertoire of collective action that emerged in some European countries during the XIX century, and which spread throughout the world afterwards as an important component of the products of modern, individualizing and de-territorialized political imagination. This does not mean that protest marches, in their concrete manifestation, are not invested with specific and local cultural contents. In this paper, protest marches in Mexico City will be used as an ethnographic window in order to meditate on the current direction of redefinition of the public sphere and related concepts (like "general well-being" or "civic culture"), as expressed in the act of protesting.