Title: Peru in Theory
Description: 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 {u2013} 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. --Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Social sciences, philosophy, Peru, politics and government, Marginality, social, Peru, social conditions, Social sciences, Philosophy, Social conditions, Peru, Politics and government, Social Marginality, Institution building, Politische Theorie, Ausgrenzung, Soziale Ungleichheit, Politische Institution, Sozioökonomischer Wandel