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The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America

The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America

Williams, Gareth

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South American History

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ISBN10: 0822329255
ISBN13: 9780822329251
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 22 2002
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Drawing on deconstruction, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and subaltern studies, The Other Side of the Popular is as much a reflection on the limitations and possibilities for thinking about the politics of Latin American culture as it is a study of the culture itself. Gareth Williams pays particular attention to the close relationship between complex cultural shifts and the development of the neoliberal nation-state. The modern Latin American nation, he argues, was built upon the idea of the people, a citizenry with common interests transcending demographic and cultural differences. As nations have weakened in relation to the global economy, this moment--of the popular as the basis of nation-building--has passed, causing seismic shifts in the relationships between governments and cultural formations. Williams asserts that these changed relationships necessitate the rethinking of fundamental concepts such as the popular and the nation. He maintains that the perspective of subalternity is vital to this theoretical project because it demands the reimagining of the connections between critical reason and its objects of analysis.

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