Resistance Struggles and Multi-partisanship

Abstract

The work first analyses the relations between governamentality and resistance struggles. It seeks to know whether it is still possible to understand the role played by both the agonistic and libertarian struggles in today's de­mocratic world, which is managed by a bureaucratic machine that works on the regulation and control of social life. On the other hand, what would be democracy in peripheral countries like those in the Americas? What about Brazil? In the following, the work investigates the role of today`s small parties, the so called peripheral parties, seeking to see in them new and creative political potential. In the case of Brazil and of Europe, small parties seem to play an innovative and surprising role, contradicting theories and political analysts, as they can mobilize social sectors that didn't use to have any visibility before.