Description
Book SynopsisFocusing on the close relationship between complex cultural shifts and the development of the neoliberal nation-state, this title argues that the modern Latin American nation was built upon the idea of 'the people', a citizenry with common interests transcending demographic and cultural differences.
Trade Review“A serious study on the cultural challenges brought about by postmodern culture in Latin America is in order and largely overdue. In that sense,
The Other Side of the Popular makes an invaluable contribution to the challenge of thinking about the present configuration of culture in the region. This book fills a gap in the area of Latin American cultural studies and it does so with serious scholarship, brilliance, and intellectual commitment.”—Horacio Legras, Georgetown University
“Gareth Williams does an excellent job of explaining the historical and political changes that brought about the transformation of the popular into civil society, noting that the latter is of a piece with neoliberalism. He demonstrates how to take the subaltern (defined as that which resists assimilation into projects for governability) into account without transforming it into a minoritized subject to be managed nor into a citizenry that gains its sovereignty through consumption.”—George Yudice, New York University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Closure
1. The State of Things Passed: Transculturation as National-Popular Master Language
2. Intellectual Populism and the Geopolitical Structure of Knowledge
3. Formalities of Consumption and Citizenship in the Age of Cultural Hybridity
Intermezzo . . . Hear Say Yes
4. Hear Say Yes in Piglia:
La cuidad ausente, Posthegemony, and the “Fin-negans” of Historicity
Perhaps
5. The Dispersal of the Nation and the Neoliberal Habitus: Tracing Insurrection from Central America to South Central Los Angeles
6. Of
Pishtacos and Eye-Snatchers: Neoliberalism and Neoindigenism in Contemporary Peru
7. Operational Whitewash and the Negative Community
Notes
Works Cited
Index
