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G. Williams - The Mexican Exception. Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy.  - 9781349292639 - V9781349292639
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The Mexican Exception. Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy.

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Description for The Mexican Exception. Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy. Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA; JPHV; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society.  Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality.  Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language.  In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis.  It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349292639
SKU
V9781349292639
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About G. Williams
GARETH WILLIAMS Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA.

Reviews for The Mexican Exception. Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy.
"A very readable, engaging, well-organized discussion which, on one hand, presents powerfuland provocative counterarguments against triumphalist Mexican historiography according to which the post-revolutionary State has succeeded in redressing the rampant injustices and inequalities that plagued Mexico from the colonial period through the early 20thcentury. On the other hand, Williams also takes issue with criticalhistories which have documented how post-revolutionary Mexican ... Read more

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