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In analyzing social class from a discursive & emotional perspective, attention ought to be given to a particular aspect of the argumentative co-ordination of class interaction. We refer to the notion of 'the best argument', a concept originating in Habermas's classic Theory of Communicative Action. We argue that this concept needs to be reformulated before it can be applied to the analysis of class &, especially, to the relations of domination that are involved. This reformulation requires a critique of Habermas' theory. We focus on his social action typology in general &, in particular, his concept of communicative action. We propose that the concepts of 'the best argument' & communicative action (which we reformulate as the argumentative dimension of interaction) should not require symmetry between participants in an interaction. We suggest that these concepts should apply both to situations of symmetry & asymmetry. This allows us to better understand some of the mechanisms that sustain the process of social legitimization in unequal conditions.

In this article we propose an analysis of social classes that emphasize in the subjective dimension of these ones. From different contexts that take part in the production of the subjectivities of class, and take into account the active paper that the subjects maintain in the relation of domination and snobbish exploitation, we center our attention on strikes. Specifically we fixed on a study of case, across of which we realise a chase of share subjetivities production along drawnout of time (from the 60's to the end of the 90's), for workers of an industrial company in Catalonia (Spain). In the analysis we build a typology of collective subjectivities that it overcome and it oppose along drawnout of strikes study. We make clear the diverse transformations that they have suffer as same as its fragmentary character. We show the diverse tensions and confrontations in the process of constitution and sustenance of collective subjectivities in situations such a controversial as strikes. These show clearly the relation of power that typify patriarchal capitalist production of life.

El dolor cronifi cado sin-causa-orgánica (DC) conocido en terminología psicomédica como fibromialgia (FM) afecta cada vez más a una proporción considerable de mujeres diagnosticadas en sociedades capitalistas. El interés del siguiente artículo es profundizar en la construcción de este síntoma, su tratamiento y los efectos psicosociales tanto en el orden social, como en la vida de las personas que lo padecen utilizando los discursos que se vehiculizan en publicaciones de revistas españolas. El resultado ha sido la emergencia de tres posiciones discursivas hegemónicas: la posición "cientifi sta", la posición "terapéutica de la conformidad" y la posición "económico-legalista". Cada una de ellas tiene una especifi cidad característica, pero en su conjunto se potencian produciendo efectos como la ausencia de contexto social para explicar la enfermedad, la desconsideración de diferencias de género en el abordaje y tratamiento, la instrumentalización del dolor para legitimar sus prácticas y la sujección de las mujeres al paradigma psicobiomédico. Se propone una resignifi cación-repolitización del concepto de dolor.

El dolor cronifi cado sin-causa-orgánica (DC) conocido en terminología psicomédica como fibromialgia (FM) afecta cada vez más a una proporción considerable de mujeres diagnosticadas en sociedades capitalistas. El interés del siguiente artículo es profundizar en la construcción de este síntoma, su tratamiento y los efectos psicosociales tanto en el orden social, como en la vida de las personas que lo padecen utilizando los discursos que se vehiculizan en publicaciones de revistas españolas. El resultado ha sido la emergencia de tres posiciones discursivas hegemónicas: la posición "cientifi sta", la posición "terapéutica de la conformidad" y la posición "económico-legalista". Cada una de ellas tiene una especifi cidad característica, pero en su conjunto se potencian produciendo efectos como la ausencia de contexto social para explicar la enfermedad, la desconsideración de diferencias de género en el abordaje y tratamiento, la instrumentalización del dolor para legitimar sus prácticas y la sujección de las mujeres al paradigma psicobiomédico. Se propone una resignifi cación-repolitización del concepto de dolor. ; Chronic pain, without any organic or physical cause (DC), which in psycho-medical terminology is known as fi bromyalgia, (FM), is diagnosed each year to a considerable number of women in capitalistic societies. Our main interest in the following paper is to go in depth in the elaboration of this symptom, its treatment and the psychosocial effects, both in the social order as well as in the lives of the people who suffer from it. Our main goal in the following paper is to look deeper in the elaboration (conceptualization) of this symptom, its treatment and psychological affects, both in the social order as well as in the lives of the people who suffer from it, we are using linked speeches in Spanish magazines publications. The result has been the emergence of three hegemonic discourse positions: One position "scientist", one "therapeutic of the conformity" position and one "economic and legalistic" position. Each of these has a specifi c feature, but on the whole, is enhanced, producing effects such as the absence of social context to explain the disease; disregard of gender differences in the management and treatment; the instrumentalization of pain to legitimize their practices and the subjection of women to the "psycho-biomedical" paradigm. In that way, a new signifi cance and politicization of the concept of pain is proposed.

Acknowledging dissident bodies of persons with disabilities is an act of continuous resistance, and as such our objective in this article is to analyze the vulnerability and bodily violation of disability activists in Chile. In order to do so, between September 2018 and February 2019 we conducted 11 in-depth interviews using the technique of bodily itineraries, as well as 6 discussion groups. Through qualitative thematic analysis, several categories emerged: the central category of "Bodily change or difference: experiences of medicalized fragility;" and three subcategories, "Bodily diagnosis: the institutional management of differences;" "Medical treatment: correcting bodily and social abnormality;" and "Rehabilitation: to function once again as a normative body." Activists' itineraries reveal the coaptation and bodily violation that they are subjected to by the biomedical apparatus, where they are systematically denied their human rights; however, despite attempts to discipline and control them, they create subversive strategies to validate their corporealities. ; El reconocimiento de los cuerpos disidentes de la discapacidad ofrece una situación de continua resistencia, por lo que nuestro objetivo fue analizar la vulnerabilidad y vulneración corporal de las personas activistas de la discapacidad en Chile. Para eso, entre septiembre de 2017 y febrero de 2018, se realizaron once entrevistas en profundidad utilizando la técnica de los itinerarios corporales y seis conversatorios. A través del análisis temático cualitativo, surgió la categoría central "el cambio o diferencia corporal: experiencias de fragilidad medicalizada", y tres subcategorías: "diagnóstico corporal: la gestión institucional de las diferencias"; "tratamiento médico: corregir la anormalidad corporal y social"; y "rehabilitación: volver a funcionar como un cuerpo normativo". Los itinerarios de las personas activistas develan la coaptación y vulneración corporal a la que son sometidas al ingresar a los dispositivos biomédicos que niegan sistemáticamente sus derechos humanos. Sin embargo, a pesar de intentar disciplinar y controlar sus cuerpos, crean estrategias para subvertir y validar sus subjetividades.