Posthegemony [electronic resource] : political theory and Latin America / Jon Beasley-Murray.

9781452945941 (ebook) :

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

1 online resource (xxi, 376 p.) : ill.

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Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. This book presents 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, the book contends that cultural studies simply replicate 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.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.