“Só é vencido quem deixa de lutar”: Protesto e Estado democrático em Portugal

In this article, the author seeks to understand how citizenship is constructed on the basis of the study of a local space strongly marked by collective mobilization. The case study is used to understand the dynamics of intersection of the analyzed community with the logics of control and power of the central state. He argues that the concepts of populism, bossism, Caesarism, and so on, reshaped by both media and political elites according to the demands of the democratic game, point to irrational behaviors and disqualify the capacity for political subjectivation of persons and populations, suppressing the socio-political processes that may explain certain actions or representations in the field of politics