The Mexican Exception [electronic resource] : Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy /
Williams, G.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
International relations.
Political science.
Latin America-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Democracy.
International Relations.
Political Science.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Democracy.