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Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text, Ileana Rodríguez

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"In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodriguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico, Rodriguez shows how standard liberal models fail to account for new forms of violence and exploitation, which in fact follow from specific clashes between liberal ideology and local practice. Looking at these tensions within the ostensibly well-ordered state, Rodriguez exposes how the misunderstanding and misuse of liberal principles are behind realities of political turmoil, and questions whether liberalism is in fact an ideology sufficient to empower populations and transition nation-states into democratic roles in the global order. In this way, Liberalism at Its Limits offers a critical examination of the forced fitting of liberal models to Latin American nations and reasserts cross-cultural communication as crucial to grasping the true link between varying systems of value and politics."--Publisher description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (248 pages)
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy
  • Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism
  • Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion
  • The violent text: separating the social and the political
  • Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence
  • Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border
  • The perverse heterosexual
Isbn
9780822973539
Instance
Label
Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text
Title
Liberalism at its limits
Title remainder
crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text
Statement of responsibility
Ileana Rodríguez
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodriguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico, Rodriguez shows how standard liberal models fail to account for new forms of violence and exploitation, which in fact follow from specific clashes between liberal ideology and local practice. Looking at these tensions within the ostensibly well-ordered state, Rodriguez exposes how the misunderstanding and misuse of liberal principles are behind realities of political turmoil, and questions whether liberalism is in fact an ideology sufficient to empower populations and transition nation-states into democratic roles in the global order. In this way, Liberalism at Its Limits offers a critical examination of the forced fitting of liberal models to Latin American nations and reasserts cross-cultural communication as crucial to grasping the true link between varying systems of value and politics."--Publisher description
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digitized
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E7B
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Rodríguez, Ileana
Dewey number
320.51098
Index
index present
LC call number
JC574.2.L29
LC item number
.R63 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Illuminations : Cultural Formations of the Americas
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Liberalism
  • Violence
  • Civil society
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Civil society
  • Liberalism
  • Violence
  • Latin America
  • Kultur
  • Gewalttätigkeit
  • Liberalismus
  • Lateinamerika
  • Lateinamerika
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Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text, Ileana Rodríguez
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Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy -- Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism -- Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion -- The violent text: separating the social and the political -- Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence -- Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border -- The perverse heterosexual
Control code
891385646
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (248 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780822973539
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt89c6d4
Reproduction note
  • Electronic reproduction.
  • Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)891385646
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text, Ileana Rodríguez
Publication
Copyright
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cultures, nations, differences: the paradoxical fantasies of liberalism as democracy -- Western texts, indigenous histories, feminist readings: the struggle for civil rights within the context of liberalism -- Indigenous creencias, millenarian cultures, and counterpublic persuasion -- The violent text: separating the social and the political -- Constituting subaltern subjectivities, disclosing acts of violence -- Feminicidio, or the serial killings of women: labor shifts and disempowered subjects at the border -- The perverse heterosexual
Control code
891385646
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (248 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780822973539
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt89c6d4
Reproduction note
  • Electronic reproduction.
  • Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)891385646
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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