The Mexican Exception

Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29263-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society.  Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality.  Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language.  In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis.  It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language.  Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Exceptionality, Autoimmunity, Incalculability Politics, Equality, Freedom The Manufactured Image:  Melodramatic Consciousness and the Disappearance of the Political Humanism Begets Good Order:  Alfonso Reyes and Police Thought 'Under the Paving Stones, the Beach!':  Chance, Passive Decision, Democracy Absolute Bio-Hostility and Ubiquitous Enmity:  The Party of the Poor and the Militarization of the Political

Über Autor(innen)

GARETH WILLIAMS Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, USA.