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Author Emmelhainz, Irmgard, author.

Title The tyranny of common sense : Mexico's post-neoliberal conversion / Irmgard Emmelhainz.

Publication Info. Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the English Edition -- 1 Neoliberal Sensibility and Common Sense -- Neoliberalism in Mexico -- Neoliberal Sensibility -- Neoliberalism and the Democratic Transition: The Tyranny of Common Sense -- The Perfect(ed) Dictatorship -- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Durán Barba, and the Death of the Liberal Class -- 2 Mexico's Neoliberal Conversion: Spatializing Political Economics or Neocolonial Extractivism -- Neoliberalized Mexico: Failed State or Exemplary Emerging Economy? -- Neoliberal Geno/ecocide and Resistance
Graded Sovereignty: Modernized Enclaves of Privilege -- Neoliberal Mexico City: Zones of Graded Sovereignty -- The Xico Valley Community Museum: A Tale of Resistance -- 3 Subjectivation and Governmentality: Life, Work, and Imagination under the Neoliberal Sensible Regime -- Subjectivation and Forms of Life in Post-Fordism/Cognitive Capitalism -- Entrepreneurship and Neoliberal Governmentality -- The Conflict between Self-Interest and the Sustainability of Life -- 4. Neoliberal Imaginaries for Subjectivation -- The Habit of Coloniality and the Double Bind of Modernity
The A-Representability of Originary Peoples' Struggles -- Toward Radical Imaginaries of Relational, Decolonizing Representation? -- 4 Neoliberal and "Post-Neoliberal" Culture Policy: Farewell to Autonomous, Committed Art? -- Politicized Contemporary Art and "Sensible Politics" -- Contemporary Art and the Democratization of Culture -- Art and the Neoliberal Order -- Art and Culture at the Center of Neoliberal Bellicose Projects -- Art with Political Purpose: Art and Social Movements -- For a Committed, Autonomous Art -- Mexico's Cultural Revolution -- The Mexican Renaissance
Intellectuals and the Triumph of Democracy: From "the Mafia in Power" to the "Magicians in Power" (Or the Cabaret at the Senate) -- 5 After the Neoliberal Ruin of the World in Common, Can We Share a World Beyond Representation? -- The Loss of the Lebenswelt and Modernity -- Authoritarianism in the Twenty-First Century -- Culture as the Site for the Production of the World-in-Common? -- Differentiated Representativity and Codependent Politics of Appearance -- Neo-Pornomiseria and Authoritarianism: The Rule of Affect and Morality -- Empathy and the World-in-Common
Beyond Toxic Essentialisms: What Forms Will Our Link to the World Take? -- 6 A Country in Pain: Resignifying Violence toward Autonomous Spaces for Survival -- Hiding Bodies, Resignifying the Violence -- Inhabiting Spaces of Autonomous Survival: Destituting the Legacy of Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
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Language Translated from the Spanish.
Subject Neoliberalism -- Mexico.
Neoliberalism.
Mexico.
Common sense.
Common sense.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Tiranía del sentido común. English
Other Form: Print version: Emmelhainz, Irmgard. Tiranía del sentido común. English. Tyranny of common sense. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2021] 9781438485935 (DLC) 2021001873 (OCoLC)1240774359
ISBN 9781438485959 (electronic book)
1438485956 (electronic book)
9781438485935
143848593X