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Posthegemony - Political Theory and Latin America (Paperback)
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Posthegemony - Political Theory and Latin America (Paperback)
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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 Chavez, 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
affect, habit, and the multitude. This approach addresses an era of
biopolitics and bare life, tedium and terror, in which state
control is ever more pervasive but something always escapes. In his
thorough examination, Beasley-Murray undoes the dominant narrative
of hegemonic projects and counterhegemonic resistance, of
civilization and subalternity, to reveal instead a history of
failed contracts and unpredicted insurgencies.
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