Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil Contributor(s): Whitener, Brian S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822965860 ISBN-13: 9780822965862 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - General - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 332.042 |
LCCN: 2019286424 |
Series: Pitt Illuminations |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.2" (1.05 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts, Whitener traces the interactions between culture, finance, surplus populations, and racialized state violence after 1982 in Mexico and Brazil. Crisis Cultures makes sense of the emergence of new forms of exploitation and terrifying police and militarized violence by tracking the cultural and discursive forms, including real abstraction and the favela and immaterial cadavers and voided collectivities, that have emerged in the complicated aftermath of the long downturn and global turn to finance. |