Liberalism at Its Limits: Crime and Terror in the Latin American Cultural Text
In Liberalism at Its Limits, Ileana Rodríguez considers several Latin American nations that govern under the name of liberalism yet display a shocking range of nondemocratic features. In her political, cultural, and philosophical analysis, she examines these environments in which liberalism seems to have reached its limits, as the universalizing project gives way to rampant nonstate violence, gross inequality, and neocolonialism. \ Focusing on Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico,...
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Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction Cross-Cultural Dialogues in a Global World 1Chapter 1 Cultures, Nations, Differences: The Paradoxical Fantasies of Liberalism as Democracy 6Chapter 2 Western Texts, Indigenous Histories, Feminist Readings: The Struggle for Civil Rights within the Context of Liberalism 42Chapter 3 Indigenous Creencias, Millenarian Cultures, and Counterpublic Persuasion 68Chapter 4 The Violent Text: Separating the Social and the Political 95Chapter 5 Constituting Subaltern Subjectivities, Disclosing Acts of Violence 115Chapter 6 Feminicidio, or the Serial Killings of Women: Labor Shifts and Disempowered Subjects at the Border 153Chapter 7 The Perverse Heterosexual 175Epilogue Essentially Contested Concepts and Innocent Spaces 197Notes 207Index of Names 233
