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Globalizing Paradigms, or, The Delayed State of Latin American Theory

Globalizing Paradigms, or, The Delayed State of Latin American Theory Brett Levinson G ​ lobalizing​Paradigms,​or,​The​Delayed​State​​ o ​ f​Latin​American​Theory Globalization, if a significant concept—and that is a key question of this essay—mourns the sovereign state, the fundament of a former political charter or of politics itself. It therefore also marks the waning of the “people” as democracy’s primary concern. The people, after all, is a historical category, bound to nation-state formation. Where the state falls, so too fall the people. So either globalization represents a demand for a novel base and basis for politics (or for something other than politics), in which case it signals an event, an episode, period, or novel arrangement; or else globalization merely extends in time, expands in space, and preserves in theory the state-form, albeit under new appellations: government is relabeled transnational capitalism, civil society is redesignated as nongovernmental organizations, the people or proletariat is recategorized as the global citizen, the civilian, the migrant, or the multitude, as the state receives the upgrades that sustain it for the coming era. The region and study of Latin America compel us to address these matters in a special manner: Does globalization exist as a specific phenomenon distinct from the internationalism that South Atlantic Quarterly 106:1, Winter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png South Atlantic Quarterly Duke University Press

Globalizing Paradigms, or, The Delayed State of Latin American Theory

South Atlantic Quarterly , Volume 106 (1) – Jan 1, 2007

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Duke University Press
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© 2007 by Duke University Press
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0038-2876
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0038-2876
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10.1215/00382876-2006-015
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Brett Levinson G ​ lobalizing​Paradigms,​or,​The​Delayed​State​​ o ​ f​Latin​American​Theory Globalization, if a significant concept—and that is a key question of this essay—mourns the sovereign state, the fundament of a former political charter or of politics itself. It therefore also marks the waning of the “people” as democracy’s primary concern. The people, after all, is a historical category, bound to nation-state formation. Where the state falls, so too fall the people. So either globalization represents a demand for a novel base and basis for politics (or for something other than politics), in which case it signals an event, an episode, period, or novel arrangement; or else globalization merely extends in time, expands in space, and preserves in theory the state-form, albeit under new appellations: government is relabeled transnational capitalism, civil society is redesignated as nongovernmental organizations, the people or proletariat is recategorized as the global citizen, the civilian, the migrant, or the multitude, as the state receives the upgrades that sustain it for the coming era. The region and study of Latin America compel us to address these matters in a special manner: Does globalization exist as a specific phenomenon distinct from the internationalism that South Atlantic Quarterly 106:1, Winter

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

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