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This book examines the question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society. Each chapter recuperates an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement between social actors (for example, disputes between peasants and intellectuals over words such as democracy, equality, freedom, proletariat, worker, revolution etc.). Democracy in this book is not just a type of Constitution or a form of society that politics affirms on a daily basis. It is the assumption and installation of egalitarian language. Democracy is therefore the momentary interruption or suspension of the police order.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Mexican Exception
• Subtitle: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy
• Author: Gareth Williams
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 219
• EAN: 9780230110243
• ISBN: 023011024X
• ID: 04551651
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 380 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 244 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 2011

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