Sociologies (May 2017)
Quand l'urgence règne : de l’accoutumance aux troubles aux grammaires de la pop-politique
Abstract
Urgency reigns when crisis become endless and the perceptive, cognitive and societal configuration of interpretations emerge and support it. When banalized, urgency becomes context and multiple forms of levelling prevail from underneath. Getting used to trouble’s situation settles down and tends to normalize the “emancipated” public action out of the imperative evaluating forms, its most democratic procedures. The paradox of the “urgency” that has turned into culture without creating the extraordinary public value of a social aim, excluded from the political agenda as it only deals more swiftly through the social and the political itself. Emphasizing the mobilizing capacities and based on the socio-historical experience of health institutions and their urbanism conflicts, this article reflects upon a contemporary fragilized Venezuela. Amongst diverse situations of overloading and scarcity, social actors face difficulties for identification and follow-up, justification and argumentation, opportunism and adjustment, evaluation and communication, situational interaction and attention distribution, public relaxing and civilization. The social lab of pop-politics “chavista-bolivariana” and its epic are this analyzed from a socio-cognitive perspective that focus its interest on the pragmatic difficulties regarding the uncertain, and on the managing role of a “grammar of war”, which binary rooting, authoritarian logics and polarizing effects do not cease to question Latin American history.
