State and civil society in times of globalization: reinvention of politics or depoliticization?

Abstract

Complexification, diversification and fragmentation of the forms of manifestation of the State and of the civil society have emerged as the topic of great debates and concerns in the contemporary scenario. Such categories, expression of the capitalist development of the last decades, have come to be used both to strengthen the political participation of society and to justify the neoliberal adjustment programs in the diverse governmental agendas and to depoliticize the actions of the major historical figures who functioned as vectors of social unification. Recuperating the dialectical relationship between State and civil society is a task imposing itself on everyone who believes in the construction of a new societal project.