Liberalism at its limits : crime and terror in the Latin American cultural text /

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 se...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rodríguez, Ileana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Subjects:
Liberalism > Latin America.
Violence > Latin America.
Civil society > Latin America.
Civil society.
Liberalism.
Violence.
Latin America.
Table of 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.

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