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Synopsis
This book examines cultural responses to the growing social instability in Latin America, a result of the failure of a number of programs and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal forces. The contributors look at a wide range of cultural forms--such as underground cinema, street fairs, and self-help books--to explore how Latin Americans build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives during a period of profound unrest.
Synopsis
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.