The construction of the collective identities in Latin America based in Ernesto Laclau
This dissertation aims to recognize and outline the bases that provide support to the collective identities of Latin America, understood as an important and decisive moment in the political scenario. To be possible to perceive the outlines those support a different political scheme in this local marked by a history of body, mind and science colonization. As theoretical base, will be used the research of the argentine philosopher Ernesto Laclau, and also his own source of research for the development of such analysis. It pretends to utilize concepts and categories considered not universal, will be developed basically by Latin-American authors, with the exception of Antonio Gramsci, whose the main author cited in this dissertation takes as base for his theories and also produces a movement of surpassing the concept. The standards of this dissertation are, in first place, to view Latin America from a self-perspective, making part of the construction of a tool that considerate this territoriality and all its implications.