Governmental Mismanagement and Symbolic Violence

Discourses on Corruption in the Yucatán of the 1990s1

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ID3816941
AuthorsHans Krause Hansen (0000-0003-2595-8787, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume17
Issue3
Pages367-386
Publication date1998-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1470-9856.1998.tb00130.x
OpenAlexW4235574811
LanguageEN
References cited16

Departing from a conceptualisation of corruption as a form of symbolic violence, this article analyses the character and impact of the discourses about corruption which were produced in Yucatán in the beginning of the 1990s. The discourses produced by official and oppositional forces are scrutinised against the background of the federal government's neoliberal policies and the sociopolitical situation in the region during 1992 and 1993. The analysis gives some insights into the character of Mexican's and Yucatecan's experiences with corruption in their own setting. It explores some of the conflictual processes involved when social forces turn this form of symbolic violence into the object of moral critique in public discourses, drawing in this way also attention to how the state is imagined by those who exercise state power and those who are subject to it

Character (mathematics · Criminology · Government (linguistics · Language change · Object (grammar · Political corruption · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · The Symbolic · Corruption and Economic Development · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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