Demodiversity : imaginations, contradictions and re-articulations of democracy in context of crisis in Portugal

his work uses the concept of demodiversity, elaborated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, for the analysis of the crisis period in Portugal (2011-2015) and the change of regime in México (2018). Demodiversity designates a 7situation of coexistence of conflicting and complementary practices of democracy which has the potential of emergence of unsuspected imaginations.During the crisis period in Portugal, the hegemonic model of liberal democracy is undergoing a crisis of profound legitimacy and proved to be a fertile period for the emergence and affirmation of apparently "new" democratic imaginaries. In the same way, the security and economic crisis of México that started in 2008, was fought by new forms of organization and everyday struggles.We will analyze how the emergence of "new" dominant practices -such as those of exception state imposed by the troika in Portugal (IMF, ECB and EC) and by the dominant political parties (PRI, PAN and PRD) in México-were contrasted by the emergence of new utopian democratic practices in the newest social movements -such as the acampadas, indignados, QSLT, Occupy, Zeitgeist, indigenous autonomies, self-defense organizations and the elements of the radical left. At the same time, we will analyze their own and particular contradictions. Finally we analyze how this divergence, reemergence and democratic continuity re-articulate in a new normal: can we speak of a "democratic revolution", or is it a "democratic thermidor"