Neoliberalism from below: popular resistances and public territories beyond the rule of law

Abstract

This article problematizes the popular dimension of neoliberal rationality’s overflowing methods, as well as its modes of challenging rule of law based on Verónica Gago’s thinking. Therefore, it intends to investigate how the author’s theorizations stipulate a potency of social transformation by constituting popular resistances and political territories beyond the rule of law. For this purpose, the article is supported by a border thinking and it makes use of indirect documentation through literature review as a method of apprehension of the dynamics of the new spatialities produced by neoliberalism. Furthermore, this research is justified by the academic production’s gap based on the thinking of the Argentinian theorist in Brazil, which is part of the list of critical contributions of neoliberalism with original articulation to unfold a radical, anti-colonial and feminist theoretical project. Finally, it is concluded that the persevering popular life’s creative socialization is able to contest rule of law’s boundaries as a consolidated political-legal regime.

Keywords: neoliberalism; Verónica Gago; rule of law.