SOCIAL MOBILIZATION IN HONDURAS AND RESIGNIFICATION OF IMAGINARIES IN THE POLITICAL SCENE

Abstract

The coup happened in the Central American isthmus on June 28, 2009 is the decisive point of an imbalance and collective change considered as "one of the greatest social and political crises in Honduras in the last 50 years" (Euraque, 2010: 12). The cognitive construction of this fact or another, is still a complex history that must be interpreted by the social, political and symbolic nature of the phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper I will expose only one way of understanding what happened, initiating an analysis of the relationship between virtuality and possibility (Hardt and Negri, 2000) based on this experience. I will start from the social imaginaries and the mobilizations that are produced around those dates. I will show how socio-political polarization passes through the conformation and reinforcement of group identities, being repression part of the negation of the new. The affectivity and the action of the crowd will have the capacity for re-enchantment and resignification of a convulsed time and space.