Socialist Biopolitics
Flesh and Animality in Cuba and Venezuela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18954945 |
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| Authors | Mayra Lopez (0000-0003-1446-9179, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 417-436 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25222/larr.944 |
| OpenAlex | W3166781412 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Taking as a starting point the ontological differentiation between animal and human as a fundamental mechanism of biopolitical violence, I analyze the ambiguity of the imaginaries of flesh and animality in the contexts of revolutionary Cuba and Venezuela. I demonstrate how the dynamics of power marked by an ontological division between human and not human, often ascribed to neoliberalism, paradoxically operate in socialist regimes. I examine several instances of visual arts, performance, literature, and public demonstrations, to reveal, on the one hand, sacrificial state power over the population’s bodies and, on the other, examples of disobedience against the state
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Biology · Biopower · Flesh · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Cuban History and Society · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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