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The Mexican Exception - Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Mexican Exception - Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy (Hardcover)
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The war on drugs has opened up a discussion on whether Mexico is
living a state of exception or even becoming a failed state. This
book argues that sovereign exceptionality has always been central
to Mexican modernity. The question is how to understand the way the
sovereign exception has worked and continues to work in cultural,
historical, and institutional terms since this holds the key to
understanding the nature of contemporary democracy. Each chapter of
"The Mexican Exception" examines an event or particular historical
sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture,
sovereign exceptionality, and the political. Drawing on literature,
photography, critical theory, and the history of social movements
and state formation, "The Mexican Exception" proposes a partial
history of the state of exception by examining the electoral
stand-off of 2006; Zapatismo past and present; the humanist
representation of history; sovereignty and "caciquismo"; popular
culture and the figure of the rogue; the events and political
imagination of 1968; the 'dirty war' of the 1970's and the
militarization of the social sphere in recent decades. In this book
Williams maps out political and cultural counter-genealogies in
order to shed light on the workings of the constitutive couple of
democracy (equality and freedom) in modern and contemporary Mexico.
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