Crisis Cultures : The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil

Whitener, Brian

ISBN 10: 0822965860 / ISBN 13: 9780822965862

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Seller Inventory # 33809866-n

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Brian Whitener is an assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of South Alabama.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Crisis Cultures : The Rise of Finance in ...
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New