Citizenship and political identity:

reflections from the social conflictivity

Abstract

The study about citizenship has been constituted on the foundations of theoretical aspects that consider this category on one hand, as a determined community and on the other hand, as a desirable practice. In this way, both modes of thoughtrelated to the liberalism and republicanism respectively- suppose a prescriptive vision on the constitution of citizenship and of citizens, without making place to the problematic on the condition of the emergence of these. In the present paper notions about citizenship worked by Chantal Mouffe are recovered. In this way, we centralize the author’s consideration about the social conflict as a mode of overcoming the prescriptive intention of the cited theoretical currents. In turn, we work around the constitution of citizenship as a political identity; stipulating finally, the importance of rethinking the citizenship from the discursivity of the social, to eliminate everything that holds, in advance, the intention of establishing a universal notion of citizenship.