R Cordero
Biographic Data
| ID | 38871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Cordero |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cordero |
| SIGNATURE | CORDERO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diego Portales University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8441-7855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
La crisis de lo humano: Notas para un debate sobre el antropoceno
Cuentistas sociales, o por qué las ciencias sociales necesitan volver a contar historias
Luego de una década a la cabeza, y muchas veces a la cola, de la revista Cuadernos de Teoría Social, entregamos la posta a una nueva generación para que siga dándole vida a este espacio intelectual. Nos retiramos con ideas y relatos fragmentarios, como una memoria colectiva desparramada en viñetas. Tras este largo periodo de trabajo administrativo-editorial y de artesanía intelectual con conceptos propios y ajenos, observamos que vivimos en una é…
Narrative democracy: Notes on (the failure of) Chile's constituent process
Democracies today face intensifying political polarization over the principles and values that should structure social life. Amid interconnected global crises, public discourse is saturated with narratives which depict democracy as rapidly degenerating or nearing collapse. This article proposes to shift the focus away from the dominant narratives of democratic crisis to a less visible yet equally urgent phenomenon: the crisis of the democratic na…
Mining legal meaning: The neoliberal foundations of extractivist constitutionalism in Chile
Claims of ownership, claims of dignity: Moral narratives on the right to housing in Chile’s constitutional referendum
In September 2022, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected the draft of a new constitution to replace the inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship. Existing explanations attribute the failure to a mixture of ill-designed procedures, political dynamics, and ideological distortions and fake news. However, we argue for a different interpretation, emphasizing the collision of normative worlds in the struggle for demarcating rights. Through narrative analysis …
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds: An introduction to the moral economy of constitutional struggles
This article outlines a framework for studying practices of boundary-making as pivotal to the various ways in which “rights” become objects of contention and sources of narrativization in contemporary constitutional democracies. Firstly, we reconsider the dynamics of boundary-making that underline polarization by drawing on the notion of “moral economy”. This concept is well-suited for making sense of how social groups draw lines of demarcation t…
Mythical Infrastructuring: The Work of Stories in the Making of the Chacao Bridge, Southern Chile
The very nature of large-scale infrastructure projects—long design and construction periods, high investment, and impact on social and natural spaces—makes them prone to socioecological and technical conflicts. These conflicts materialize in stories that become keystones in the making of infrastructure. In this article, we analyze the infrastructuring power of stories by drawing on the case of the Chacao Bridge on Chiloé Island in southern Chile,…
The making of neoliberal legality: The legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America
The ‘free enterprise’ system is a normative cornerstone of many Latin American political constitutions and a formative principle of neoliberal legality. However, the way in which this economic model shapes the legal field and conceptions of the rule of law remains understudied. Though lawyers, judges, and legal experts have played an important role in the legal buttressing of the free enterprise model, this article explores the shaping of neolibe…
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution
Drawing conceptual boundaries is one of the defining features of constitution-making processes. These historically situated operations of boundary making are central to the definition of what counts as “constitutional” in a political community. In this article, we study the operations of conceptual delimitation performed by the Constitutional Commission (1973–1978) that drafted the 1980 Chilean Constitution, the trademark of Augusto Pinochet’s di…
A Method of Mobility: Dialectical Critique and the Work of Concepts
This article discusses dialectics as a method of critique which takes concepts it primal object of inquiry. Through a reading of Theodor W. Adorno’s lecture course Introduction to Dialectics, it argues that for dialectical critique concepts are living organs of social reality whose work must observed in terms of constellations of experiences and practices, and through specific historical sites and social processes. The article reconstructs three …
The Negative Dialectics of Law: Luhmann and the Sociology of Juridical Concepts
This article proposes to read Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory of law from the perspective of what may be called the negative dialectics of law: namely, the irreconcilable tension between law as a mechanism that reproduces institutional orders and stabilizes normative expectations, and law as a medium that empowers transformative action and motivates social innovations. Drawing on this tension, the article advances an interpretation of the cr…
Giving society a form: Constituent moments and the force of concepts
Controversies in social-ecological systems: Lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile
Mascareño, A., R. Cordero, G. Azócar, M. Billi, P. A. Henríquez, and G. A. Ruz. 2018. Controversies in social-ecological systems: lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile. Ecology and Society 23(4):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10300-230415
In defense of speculative sociology: A response to Simon Susen
Simon Susen’s generous, detailed and insightful reading of my book gives me the chance to further reflect on the challenges involved in asserting the legacy of critical theory in a nonfoundationali
Hacia una sociología de la abstracción: Observaciones Acerca De La Mediación Entre Lo Conceptual Y Lo Empírico
El artículo propone contribuir al estudio sociolÃ3gico de la "abstracciÃ3n" como una clave para comprender las complejas relaciones entre lo conceptual y lo empírico. Nuestro argumento es que la "abstracciÃ3n" constituye un tercer término que desafía el divorcio entre ambos dominios en la sociología e interroga su compleja mediaciÃ3n en la vida social. Para ello, exploramos las posibilidades de una sociología de la abstracciÃ3n como un ejercicio …
On the reflexivity of crises: Lessons from critical theory and systems theory
The main aim of this article is to offer a sociological concept of crisis that, defined as the expected yet non-lineal outcome of the internal dynamics of modern societies, builds on the synergies between critical theory and systems theory. It contends that, notwithstanding important differences, both traditions concur in addressing crises as a form of self-reproduction of social systems as much as a form of engagement with the complexities and e…
Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life
Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question. Based on this claim, this book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile condition of the…
The temporalization of critique and the open riddle of history: On Reinhart Koselleck's contributions to critical theory
The main goal of this paper is to offer a reading of Reinhart Koselleck's work as an ally of critical theory. My contention is that, despite customary accusations of Koselleck being an anti-Enlightenment historian detrimental to social criticism and emancipatory politics, his investigations on the semantic fabric of modern society may actually expand our resources for the critique of domination. In order to make this argument plausible, I reconst…
It happens ‘in-between’: On the spatial birth of politics in Arendt's On Revolution
This paper proposes a reading of Arendt's On Revolution that focuses on the spatial nature of the revolutionary phenomenon. It advances an understanding of political foundation as the ‘opening’ of a topos for political existence. I draw on the key notion of the ‘in-between’ that Arendt uses to depict the basic structure of the world as a space of coexistence and plurality. In the first part, I elucidate the anti-essentialist meaning of this term.…
Crisis and critique in Jürgen Habermas's social theory
At a time when ideas of crisis and critique are at the forefront of public discourse, this article seeks to understand moments of crisis vis-à-vis critique as a key feature of critical social theory. It addresses Jürgen Habermas's strong claim that this relationship accounts for a 'model of analysis' concerned with grasping the 'diremptions' of social life. To elaborate this reading, the article pays attention to the main problems Habermas identi…
Vínculo social, juventud y trasgresión normativa: Aspectos conceptuales y metodológicos en el estudio de la cohesión social en América Latina
El propósito de este artículo es contribuir al debate acerca de la cohesión social en América Latina a través de una propuesta conceptual y metodológica para su estudio. En particular proponemos la noción de trasgresión normativa como modo de entender la solidez-debilidad del vínculo social. A partir de los resultados de un estudio piloto realizado en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, pudimos constatar que los niveles de trasgresión son generalment…
Forthcoming in Volume 45, Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Cómo se hace la sociología cultural: Una conversación con Jeffrey Alexander
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Performing Cultural Sociology: A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Legislatures in presidential systems: The Latin American experience
The failure of democracy in Latin America has been a major obstacle to studying legislatures in presidential systems. A sensitive analysis of the functions and legislative capacity of parliaments in the region would require a significant level of institutional continuity and in turn the possibility of examining relations with the head of state over an extended period and under different majorities. Only this type of stability would allow a thorou…
On the reflexivity of crises: Lessons from critical theory and systems theory
The main aim of this article is to offer a sociological concept of crisis that, defined as the expected yet non-lineal outcome of the internal dynamics of modern societies, builds on the synergies between critical theory and systems theory. It contends that, notwithstanding important differences, both traditions concur in addressing crises as a form of self-reproduction of social systems as much as a form of engagement with the complexities and e…
Giving society a form: Constituent moments and the force of concepts
Controversies in social-ecological systems: Lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile
Mascareño, A., R. Cordero, G. Azócar, M. Billi, P. A. Henríquez, and G. A. Ruz. 2018. Controversies in social-ecological systems: lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile. Ecology and Society 23(4):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10300-230415
The Negative Dialectics of Law: Luhmann and the Sociology of Juridical Concepts
This article proposes to read Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory of law from the perspective of what may be called the negative dialectics of law: namely, the irreconcilable tension between law as a mechanism that reproduces institutional orders and stabilizes normative expectations, and law as a medium that empowers transformative action and motivates social innovations. Drawing on this tension, the article advances an interpretation of the cr…
Crisis and critique in Jürgen Habermas's social theory
At a time when ideas of crisis and critique are at the forefront of public discourse, this article seeks to understand moments of crisis vis-à-vis critique as a key feature of critical social theory. It addresses Jürgen Habermas's strong claim that this relationship accounts for a 'model of analysis' concerned with grasping the 'diremptions' of social life. To elaborate this reading, the article pays attention to the main problems Habermas identi…
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds: An introduction to the moral economy of constitutional struggles
This article outlines a framework for studying practices of boundary-making as pivotal to the various ways in which “rights” become objects of contention and sources of narrativization in contemporary constitutional democracies. Firstly, we reconsider the dynamics of boundary-making that underline polarization by drawing on the notion of “moral economy”. This concept is well-suited for making sense of how social groups draw lines of demarcation t…
It happens ‘in-between’: On the spatial birth of politics in Arendt's On Revolution
This paper proposes a reading of Arendt's On Revolution that focuses on the spatial nature of the revolutionary phenomenon. It advances an understanding of political foundation as the ‘opening’ of a topos for political existence. I draw on the key notion of the ‘in-between’ that Arendt uses to depict the basic structure of the world as a space of coexistence and plurality. In the first part, I elucidate the anti-essentialist meaning of this term.…
Performing Cultural Sociology: A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Legislatures in presidential systems: The Latin American experience
The failure of democracy in Latin America has been a major obstacle to studying legislatures in presidential systems. A sensitive analysis of the functions and legislative capacity of parliaments in the region would require a significant level of institutional continuity and in turn the possibility of examining relations with the head of state over an extended period and under different majorities. Only this type of stability would allow a thorou…
The temporalization of critique and the open riddle of history: On Reinhart Koselleck's contributions to critical theory
The main goal of this paper is to offer a reading of Reinhart Koselleck's work as an ally of critical theory. My contention is that, despite customary accusations of Koselleck being an anti-Enlightenment historian detrimental to social criticism and emancipatory politics, his investigations on the semantic fabric of modern society may actually expand our resources for the critique of domination. In order to make this argument plausible, I reconst…
The making of neoliberal legality: The legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America
The ‘free enterprise’ system is a normative cornerstone of many Latin American political constitutions and a formative principle of neoliberal legality. However, the way in which this economic model shapes the legal field and conceptions of the rule of law remains understudied. Though lawyers, judges, and legal experts have played an important role in the legal buttressing of the free enterprise model, this article explores the shaping of neolibe…
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution
Drawing conceptual boundaries is one of the defining features of constitution-making processes. These historically situated operations of boundary making are central to the definition of what counts as “constitutional” in a political community. In this article, we study the operations of conceptual delimitation performed by the Constitutional Commission (1973–1978) that drafted the 1980 Chilean Constitution, the trademark of Augusto Pinochet’s di…
In defense of speculative sociology: A response to Simon Susen
Simon Susen’s generous, detailed and insightful reading of my book gives me the chance to further reflect on the challenges involved in asserting the legacy of critical theory in a nonfoundationali
Legislatures in presidential systems: The Latin American experience
The failure of democracy in Latin America has been a major obstacle to studying legislatures in presidential systems. A sensitive analysis of the functions and legislative capacity of parliaments in the region would require a significant level of institutional continuity and in turn the possibility of examining relations with the head of state over an extended period and under different majorities. Only this type of stability would allow a thorou…
Performing Cultural Sociology: A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander
Cómo se hace la sociología cultural: Una conversación con Jeffrey Alexander
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Vínculo social, juventud y trasgresión normativa: Aspectos conceptuales y metodológicos en el estudio de la cohesión social en América Latina
El propósito de este artículo es contribuir al debate acerca de la cohesión social en América Latina a través de una propuesta conceptual y metodológica para su estudio. En particular proponemos la noción de trasgresión normativa como modo de entender la solidez-debilidad del vínculo social. A partir de los resultados de un estudio piloto realizado en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile, pudimos constatar que los niveles de trasgresión son generalment…
Forthcoming in Volume 45, Number 2
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
It happens ‘in-between’: On the spatial birth of politics in Arendt's On Revolution
This paper proposes a reading of Arendt's On Revolution that focuses on the spatial nature of the revolutionary phenomenon. It advances an understanding of political foundation as the ‘opening’ of a topos for political existence. I draw on the key notion of the ‘in-between’ that Arendt uses to depict the basic structure of the world as a space of coexistence and plurality. In the first part, I elucidate the anti-essentialist meaning of this term.…
Crisis and critique in Jürgen Habermas's social theory
At a time when ideas of crisis and critique are at the forefront of public discourse, this article seeks to understand moments of crisis vis-à-vis critique as a key feature of critical social theory. It addresses Jürgen Habermas's strong claim that this relationship accounts for a 'model of analysis' concerned with grasping the 'diremptions' of social life. To elaborate this reading, the article pays attention to the main problems Habermas identi…
Crisis and Critique: On the Fragile Foundations of Social Life
Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question. Based on this claim, this book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile condition of the…
The temporalization of critique and the open riddle of history: On Reinhart Koselleck's contributions to critical theory
The main goal of this paper is to offer a reading of Reinhart Koselleck's work as an ally of critical theory. My contention is that, despite customary accusations of Koselleck being an anti-Enlightenment historian detrimental to social criticism and emancipatory politics, his investigations on the semantic fabric of modern society may actually expand our resources for the critique of domination. In order to make this argument plausible, I reconst…
In defense of speculative sociology: A response to Simon Susen
Simon Susen’s generous, detailed and insightful reading of my book gives me the chance to further reflect on the challenges involved in asserting the legacy of critical theory in a nonfoundationali
Hacia una sociología de la abstracción: Observaciones Acerca De La Mediación Entre Lo Conceptual Y Lo Empírico
El artículo propone contribuir al estudio sociolÃ3gico de la "abstracciÃ3n" como una clave para comprender las complejas relaciones entre lo conceptual y lo empírico. Nuestro argumento es que la "abstracciÃ3n" constituye un tercer término que desafía el divorcio entre ambos dominios en la sociología e interroga su compleja mediaciÃ3n en la vida social. Para ello, exploramos las posibilidades de una sociología de la abstracciÃ3n como un ejercicio …
On the reflexivity of crises: Lessons from critical theory and systems theory
The main aim of this article is to offer a sociological concept of crisis that, defined as the expected yet non-lineal outcome of the internal dynamics of modern societies, builds on the synergies between critical theory and systems theory. It contends that, notwithstanding important differences, both traditions concur in addressing crises as a form of self-reproduction of social systems as much as a form of engagement with the complexities and e…
Controversies in social-ecological systems: Lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile
Mascareño, A., R. Cordero, G. Azócar, M. Billi, P. A. Henríquez, and G. A. Ruz. 2018. Controversies in social-ecological systems: lessons from a major red tide crisis on Chiloe Island, Chile. Ecology and Society 23(4):15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10300-230415
The Negative Dialectics of Law: Luhmann and the Sociology of Juridical Concepts
This article proposes to read Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory of law from the perspective of what may be called the negative dialectics of law: namely, the irreconcilable tension between law as a mechanism that reproduces institutional orders and stabilizes normative expectations, and law as a medium that empowers transformative action and motivates social innovations. Drawing on this tension, the article advances an interpretation of the cr…
Giving society a form: Constituent moments and the force of concepts
A Method of Mobility: Dialectical Critique and the Work of Concepts
This article discusses dialectics as a method of critique which takes concepts it primal object of inquiry. Through a reading of Theodor W. Adorno’s lecture course Introduction to Dialectics, it argues that for dialectical critique concepts are living organs of social reality whose work must observed in terms of constellations of experiences and practices, and through specific historical sites and social processes. The article reconstructs three …
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution
Drawing conceptual boundaries is one of the defining features of constitution-making processes. These historically situated operations of boundary making are central to the definition of what counts as “constitutional” in a political community. In this article, we study the operations of conceptual delimitation performed by the Constitutional Commission (1973–1978) that drafted the 1980 Chilean Constitution, the trademark of Augusto Pinochet’s di…
Mythical Infrastructuring: The Work of Stories in the Making of the Chacao Bridge, Southern Chile
The very nature of large-scale infrastructure projects—long design and construction periods, high investment, and impact on social and natural spaces—makes them prone to socioecological and technical conflicts. These conflicts materialize in stories that become keystones in the making of infrastructure. In this article, we analyze the infrastructuring power of stories by drawing on the case of the Chacao Bridge on Chiloé Island in southern Chile,…
The making of neoliberal legality: The legal imagination of business elites and the ‘social constitutionalization’ of ‘free enterprise’ in Latin America
The ‘free enterprise’ system is a normative cornerstone of many Latin American political constitutions and a formative principle of neoliberal legality. However, the way in which this economic model shapes the legal field and conceptions of the rule of law remains understudied. Though lawyers, judges, and legal experts have played an important role in the legal buttressing of the free enterprise model, this article explores the shaping of neolibe…
Claims of ownership, claims of dignity: Moral narratives on the right to housing in Chile’s constitutional referendum
In September 2022, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected the draft of a new constitution to replace the inherited from Pinochet’s dictatorship. Existing explanations attribute the failure to a mixture of ill-designed procedures, political dynamics, and ideological distortions and fake news. However, we argue for a different interpretation, emphasizing the collision of normative worlds in the struggle for demarcating rights. Through narrative analysis …
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds: An introduction to the moral economy of constitutional struggles
This article outlines a framework for studying practices of boundary-making as pivotal to the various ways in which “rights” become objects of contention and sources of narrativization in contemporary constitutional democracies. Firstly, we reconsider the dynamics of boundary-making that underline polarization by drawing on the notion of “moral economy”. This concept is well-suited for making sense of how social groups draw lines of demarcation t…
La crisis de lo humano: Notas para un debate sobre el antropoceno
Cuentistas sociales, o por qué las ciencias sociales necesitan volver a contar historias
Luego de una década a la cabeza, y muchas veces a la cola, de la revista Cuadernos de Teoría Social, entregamos la posta a una nueva generación para que siga dándole vida a este espacio intelectual. Nos retiramos con ideas y relatos fragmentarios, como una memoria colectiva desparramada en viñetas. Tras este largo periodo de trabajo administrativo-editorial y de artesanía intelectual con conceptos propios y ajenos, observamos que vivimos en una é…
Narrative democracy: Notes on (the failure of) Chile's constituent process
Democracies today face intensifying political polarization over the principles and values that should structure social life. Amid interconnected global crises, public discourse is saturated with narratives which depict democracy as rapidly degenerating or nearing collapse. This article proposes to shift the focus away from the dominant narratives of democratic crisis to a less visible yet equally urgent phenomenon: the crisis of the democratic na…
Mining legal meaning: The neoliberal foundations of extractivist constitutionalism in Chile
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