ABSTRACT
Politics, according to Rancière (2005), are a permanent debate about reality. They involve a conflict that cannot be solved rationally – a conflict that opens a discussion about what is possible, who has the right to speak and who sets the agenda of the discussion. The chapters in this part aim to grasp aspects of this debate in relation to current societies that become increasingly multicultural. They discuss how different groups and individuals construct social reality and new “we”s, how leaders inscribe themselves into different groups in order to be able to lead, how intergroup relations are represented and how political action is expressed. Inevitably, even without making an explicit reference to it, they inscribe themselves within the theoretical framework of social representations.
