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Title:

THE MEXICAN EXCEPTION
SOVEREIGNTY, POLICE, AND DEMOCRACY

Volume:

2011

By:

G. Williams

Format:

Paperback

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134929263X

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Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

28 April, 2011

Edition:

2011 ed.

Pages:

226

Synopsis:

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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