Full Description
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience.
Contributors from an international range of different disciplinary perspectives look at how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in order to analyse the discourses and cultural practices through which a societal consensus for the pursuit of neoliberal politics may be established, defended and contested.
Contents
Introduction: Everyday Life in (Post)Neoliberal Latin America ‾ Magdalena López, Daniel Nehring and Gerardo Gómez Michel
Imaginaries, sociability and cultural patterns in the post-neoliberal era: A glance at the Argentinean, Paraguayan, and Venezuelan experiences ‾ Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera
Making neoliberal selves: Popular psychology in contemporary Mexico ‾ Daniel Nehring
From Uribe's "Democratic Security" to Santo's Peace Accords with the FARC: Hate, Fear, Hope and other Emotions in Contemporary Colombian Politics ‾ Fabio López de la Roche
Cine bajo tierra: Ecuador's booming underground cinema in the aftermath of the neoliberal era ‾ Rafael Ponce-Cordero
Neoliberalising Humanity: Culture and popular participation in the case of the Street Market of Caruaru - Brazil ‾ Adilson Silva Ferraz
The contribution of the Catholic magazine Espacio Laical and the constitution of the Cuban public sphere ‾ Alexei Padilla Herrera and Armando Chaguaceda Noriega
Argentina: the philosophical resistance to the conquest of the soul ‾ Enrique Del Percio
Fleeing (post)Chávez memories: the 1990s and the Black Friday Generation ‾ Magdalena López
Re-imagined community: the Mapuche nation in neoliberal Chile ‾ Gerardo Gómez Michel
Neoliberalism and the Negotiation of the American Dream in Contemporary Latina Narratives ‾ Jenifer Skolnick and Emmanuel Alvarado
Bare Life in Contemporary Mexico: Everyday Violence and Folk Saints ‾Jungwon Park
