Publication: Las escalas de lo social
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2015
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Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva. Universidad del País Vasco
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Si bien el estudio de las transformaciones de lo social a partir de la noción de escala no es central en la obra de Pérez-Agote, cabe encontrar en ella análisis que resultan de utilidad al respecto. En primer lugar, se apoya en una consideración multiescalar y multidimensional de la vida social, que tiene en cuenta no sólo los aspectos socio-económicos o su delimitación político-administrativa sino también su fundamentación territorial, simbólica e identitaria. Esta aproximación le permite examinar algunas de las dislocaciones más debatidas de la modernidad, que la mundialización agudiza, como la derivada de la separación creciente entre la escala territorial, preferentemente local, en la que se despliegan nuestras vidas, de un lado, y aquellas otras escalas, cada vez más distantes, en las que se gestan muchos de los procesos que afectan de un modo central a dichas vidas. También facilita tener en cuenta la atención a distintas escalas emergentes, como la subestatal. Pérez-Agote ofrece, además, valiosos análisis para una comprensión multiescalar alejada de su equiparación con una suerte de jerarquización lineal y constante entre las distintas escalas, así como para comprender el “salto de escalas” y las “política de escala”. Por último, los debates sobre el estatuto científico de la noción de escala se asemejan a los referidos a conceptos estratégicos en su obra, como el de nación.
While studying social transformations from the notion of scale is not central to the work of Pérez-Agote, there are multiple insights in his work that are useful in this regard. First, it is based on a multi-scale and multidimensional consideration of social life, which takes into account not only its socio-economics aspects or its political-administrative territorial demarcation but also its symbolic foundation and its relevance to collective identities. His approach allows to examine some of the most debated dislocations of modernity, that globalization has deepened, as the dilemma between the territorial scale where our lives unfold and those other distant scales where the logics that shaped these lives are produced. This perspective also facilitates the consideration of different emerging scales, as the regional or the local. Perez-Agote also offers valuable analysis for the understanding of the scalar structuration of social life away from its comparison with a kind of linear and constant hierarchy between the different scales, and to understand the "jump of scale" and the "politics of scale". Finally, discussions on the scientific status of the concept of scale are similar to those related to strategic concepts in his work, like the nation.
While studying social transformations from the notion of scale is not central to the work of Pérez-Agote, there are multiple insights in his work that are useful in this regard. First, it is based on a multi-scale and multidimensional consideration of social life, which takes into account not only its socio-economics aspects or its political-administrative territorial demarcation but also its symbolic foundation and its relevance to collective identities. His approach allows to examine some of the most debated dislocations of modernity, that globalization has deepened, as the dilemma between the territorial scale where our lives unfold and those other distant scales where the logics that shaped these lives are produced. This perspective also facilitates the consideration of different emerging scales, as the regional or the local. Perez-Agote also offers valuable analysis for the understanding of the scalar structuration of social life away from its comparison with a kind of linear and constant hierarchy between the different scales, and to understand the "jump of scale" and the "politics of scale". Finally, discussions on the scientific status of the concept of scale are similar to those related to strategic concepts in his work, like the nation.