Peru in Theory

by Drinot, Paulo

• ISBN13: 9781137455253
• ISBN10: 113745525X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion – key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume assess the extent to which the analytical frameworks of a number of social and cultural theorists can inform, and, at the same time, be informed by, Peru as a case study.

Author Biography

Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK. He is the author of The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race and the Making of the Peruvian State (2011), among other books.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Paulo Drinot
2. The Fujimori Regime Through Tocqueville's Lens: Centralism, Regime Change and Peripheral Elites in Contemporary Peru; Alberto Vergara
3. Crossing Boundaries to Understand Change: Varieties of Developmental State Structures in Chile and Peru; José Carlos Orihuela
4. Theorising Encounters between Mining Companies and Local Populations: Using the Weapons of James C. Scott; Cecilia Perla
5. Huntington in Peru (Or Beware of Reforms); Omar Awapara Franco and Eduardo Dargent Bocanegra
6. Laclau's Theory of Hegemony: Between Socio-Cultural Politics and a Political Economy of Citizenship; Maria Balarin
7. The Street Sweeper and the Mayor: Transgression and Politics in Lima; Daniella María Gandolfo
8. Foucault in the Land of Incas: Sovereignty and Governmentality in Neoliberal Peru; Paulo Drinot
9. Mann in the Andes: State Infrastructural Power and Nationalism in Peru; Matthias vom Hau and Valeria Biffi
10. Inequality, Normative Violence and Livable Life: Judith Butler and Peruvian Reality; Jelke Boesten
11. Afterword; Paul Gootenberg