Peru in Theory [electronic resource] /
Drinot, P.editor.
Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume assess the extent to which the analytical frameworks of a number of social and cultural theorists can inform, and, at the same time, be informed by, Peru as a case study.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Peru in Theory*; Chapter 2 The Fujimori Regime through Tocqueville's Lens: Centralism, Regime Change, and Peripheral Elites in Contemporary Pe; Chapter 3 Crossing Boundaries to Understand Change: Varieties of Developmental State Structures in Chile and Peru; Chapter 4 Theorizing Encounters between Mining Companies and Local Populations: Using the Weapons of James C. Scott; Chapter 5 Huntington in Peru (Or Beware of Reforms)
Chapter 6 Laclau's Theory of Hegemony: Between Sociocultural Politics and a Political Economy of CitizenshipChapter 7 The Street Sweeper and the Mayor: Transgression and Politics in Lima*; Chapter 8 Foucault in the Land of the Incas: Sovereignty and Governmentality in Neoliberal Peru*; Chapter 9 Mann in the Andes: State Infrastructural Power and Nationalism in Peru*; Chapter 10 Inequality, Normative Violence, and Livable Life: Judith Butler and Peruvian Reality*; Chapter 11 Afterword: Peru and Theory; List of Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume assess the extent to which the analytical frameworks of a number of social and cultural theorists can inform, and, at the same time, be informed by, Peru as a case study.
Latin America—Politics and government.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Political science.
Social sciences.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Political Science.
Social Sciences, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.