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This chapter is an approach to the periodization of neoliberalism, based on the concrete experience of Mexico as a privileged site in the historical arch of neoliberalism. The chapter proposes a cartography based on two axes: Mexico as a site of different ideas of development from Austrian libertarianism to democratic transitionism, and the development of crisis and precarization around the so-called War on Drugs. This cartography points to the reconfiguration of the fields of culture, politics, and economics in their relationship to each other as a fundamental trait of neoliberalization. The article seeks to create an understanding of the ways in which the materiality of those fields permits the thinking of neoliberalism in its periodization.
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Sánchez Prado, I.M. (2019). Mont Neoliberal Periodization: The Mexican “Democratic Transition,” from Austrian Libertarianism to the “War on Drugs”. In: Deckard, S., Shapiro, S. (eds) World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent. New Comparisons in World Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05441-0_4
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