Crisis Cultures : The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil / Brian Whitener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitener, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Brazil.

Latin America.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Crisis Cultures

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Summary:

Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts, Whitener traces the interactions between culture, finance, surplus populations, and racialized state violence after 1982 in Mexico and Brazil. Crisis Cultures makes sense of the emergence of new forms of exploitation and terrifying police and militarized violence by tracking the cultural and discursive forms, including real abstraction and the favela and immaterial cadavers and voided collectivities, that have emerged in the complicated aftermath of the long downturn and global turn to finance.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822986850

082298685X