Political Subjectivity in the Latin American Context. A Review and a Proposal

This article presents a reflection on the research production (empirical and theoretical) regarding political subjectivity in Latin America. Certain works in Spanish published between 2006 and 2014, stored in databases of social sciences were taken as source, using the key words "political subjectivity" as the search criterion. This under-development category has been understood as the deployment of the social construction of subjectivity and as a construction of subjective meaning in regard to the public, amidst the tension between the maintenance of social order and its transformation. Subcategories were identified in the investigation of political subjectivities and it is proposed that this must be understood in the diversity of its possible forms, without restricting its field of institutive subjectivities.