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Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America
Jon Beasley-Murray
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Description for Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; HBJK; JFSL4; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647156
SKU
V9780816647156
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About Jon Beasley-Murray
Jon Beasley-Murray is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at the University of British Columbia.
Reviews for Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America
"In Posthegemony, Jon Beasley-Murray provides a superbly written and insightful theoretical evaluation of the shifting relation between culture and state in Latin America." —Gareth Williams, author of The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America