Peru in Theory

by Paulo Drinot (Editor)

Can 'theory' teach us anything about Peru? Can 'Peru' teach us anything about theory? The chapters in this volume explore these questions by establishing a productive dialogue between Peru and theory. Focusing on institutional weakness and economic, social, gendered, racialized, and other forms of exclusion key issues in recent social scientific inquiry in Peru - the contributors to this volume assess the extent to which the analytical frameworks of a number of social and cultural theorists can inform, and, at the same time, be informed by, Peru as a case study.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 2014

About the author

Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is the author of The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State and editor of The Great Depression in Latin America and Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America.

Reviews

[Michaela Freire]

Great initiative of analysing Peru through the lenses of "universal" theory. Especially enjoyed Joelke Boesten´s chapter, in which she uses Judith Butler to analyse the persistence of Gender Violence in Peru.