Latin America’s right-wing shift

Cruelty and the government of other bodies during the neoliberal stage of capital

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18952017
AutoresAlejandra Bello (McKinsey & Company (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen35
Número6
Páginas1027-1048
Fecha de publicación2021-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09502386.2021.1902545
OpenAlexW3143137776
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

The aim of this article is to analyze the relationship between the recent rise to power of right-wing governments across Latin America, the imperialist dynamics of systems designed to exert control over bodies as structured by the region's nation-states, the neoliberal stage of capital and what is herein identified as the patriarchal-colonial canalization of cruelty. The premise being set forth is that the ideological shift towards the right-wing as manifested throughout the region, represents a direct expression of the manner in which the normalized dynamics of control that have long governed and controlled bodies across the Latin American continent, has been renewed with the rise of neoliberalism. This control is sustained by a current of the cruelty derived from the colonial matrix, in which suffering is canalized towards the bodies relegated to the position of the ‘Other’; non-white, non-binary, non-male, etc. An attempt will be made to demonstrate that right-wing Latin American governments have deepened the pre-existing divide between —on the one hand—bodies who are targeted by biopolitical strategies and —on the other— of bodies who are the object of cruelty as a means of governing them. This shall be done through a comparative analysis of right-wing governments in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru; drawing on a feminist reading of Fanón. This analysis is set against within the bounds of de-colonial and post-colonial feminist epistemologies and feminist cultural studies, which —since the late 90s— have been positioning affections and ‘embodiment’ as categories that fuel a radical commitment towards understanding and transforming the relationship between politics and culture

Colonialism · Criminology · Cruelty · Ideology · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America