Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America - Couverture souple

Beasley-Murray, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816647151 ISBN 13 : 9780816647156

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. Jon Beasley-Murray grounds his theoretical discussion with accounts of historical movements in Latin America, from Columbus to Chávez, and from Argentine Peronism to Peru's Sendero Luminoso.
Challenging dominant strains in social theory, Beasley-Murray contends that cultural studies simply replicates the populism that conditions it, and that civil society theory merely nourishes the neoliberalism that it sets out to oppose. Both end up entrenching the fiction of a social contract. In place of hegemony or civil society, Beasley-Murray presents a theory of posthegemony, focusing on affect, habit, and the multitude. This approach addresses an era of biopolitics and bare life, tedium and terror, in which state control is ever more pervasive but something always escapes.
In his thorough examination, Beasley-Murray undoes the dominant narrative of hegemonic projects and counterhegemonic resistance, of civilization and subalternity, to reveal instead a history of failed contracts and unpredicted insurgencies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jon Beasley-Murray is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816647151
• ISBN 13: 9780816647156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
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