Crisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil

by Brian Whitener

Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965860
• ISBN13: 9780822965862
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"