Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0822960192
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0822973537
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0822943689
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9780822960195
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9780822973539
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9780822943686
Serie:
Illuminations : Cultural Formations of the Americas
Inhalt:
"In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodriguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico, Rodriguez shows how standard liberal models fail to account for new forms of violence and exploitation, which in fact follow from specific clashes between liberal ideology and local practice. Looking at these tensions within the ostensibly well-ordered state, Rodriguez exposes how the misunderstanding and misuse of liberal principles are behind realities of political turmoil, and questions whether liberalism is in fact an ideology sufficient to empower populations and transition nation-states into democratic roles in the global order. In this way, Liberalism at Its Limits offers a critical examination of the forced fitting of liberal models to Latin American nations and reasserts cross-cultural communication as crucial to grasping the true link between varying systems of value and politics."--Publisher description
Inhalt:
Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy -- Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism -- Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion -- The violent text: separating the social and the political -- Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence -- Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border -- The perverse heterosexual
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index
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Includes index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rodríguez, Ileana Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2009 ISBN 9780822943686
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Englisch
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