"You Cannot Slaughter Ideas": Liberalism and the State of Exception in Argentina.
Existing historiography of Latin America has highlighted the role of liberalism in the 19th century formation of modern states, but it is typically viewed as historically discontinuous with the subsequent violence of the 20th century. Narrowing the focus to Argentina, we see historians like Jeremy A...
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Committee on Social Theory
2020
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