The Mexican exception : sovereignty, police, and democracy / Gareth Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Gareth, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Mexico.

Democracy.

Mexico.

Mexico--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

219 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230110243

023011024X

OCLC:

669751267