The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy
MIA KARTS BOOKS
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- Language
- English
- Category
- Law Enforcement
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- New
- ISBN-10
- 023011024X
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy
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ISBN: 023011024X
Author: Williams, G.
Condition: New
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.
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