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Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America

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Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America

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 ChÃ¡vez, and from Argentine Peronism to Peru's Sendero Luminoso.
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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.

Country	USA
Author	Jon Beasley-Murray
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
NumberOfPages	376
PublicationDate	2011-01-06
Publisher	Univ Of Minnesota Press
ReleaseDate	2011-01-06
Studio	Univ Of Minnesota Press

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