New logics of legitimization of collective identity and action: from metaphoric representation to metonymic articulation

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Published 25-09-2015
Eduardo Apodaka

Abstract

This article presents an inquest on the logics of legitimation of collective action and, for that matter, of collective identity and agency. The main thesis is that there exists an on-going shift from a modern paradigm of legitimisation, based on the releasing of representativeness between authorised representatives and devolved represented, to a presence paradigm based on the on-site articulation of singularities. Those legitimisation paradigms correlate with different ways of organising significant practices: when metaphor rules representation, metonymic sensitivity dominates presentation. It assigns meaning to participation, to continuity, and even to immediacy in a flat ontology, as a manner of organisation of significant practices (and consequently of the actors, identities and collective agencies).

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Keywords

crisis of representation, legitimation paradigms, collective agency and identity, metaphor and metonyma

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