Violence and democracy as linked concepts. The Argentine case

Abstract

The argentine case is studied in order to rethink and to conceptualize the relations between violence, State and democracy through history. It is proposed the concepts of “threshold of historical intelligibility” and the distinction of systematic, symbolic and subjective violence. It is concluded that after 1983 the subjective violence diminishes if is compared this period with previous ones. It is due to the emergency of thresholds that were articulating meanings and affections about the state, the national, the popular and the democratic. These were articulated to process politically the violence. In spite of that, other variables are emerging and frustrating this process. There is noticed the need to give visibility to the systemic violence and his processing in the democratic life of communities.