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Governmental Mismanagement and Symbolic Violence: Discourses on Corruption in the Yucatán of the 1990s 1
Author(s) -
HANSEN HANS KRAUSE
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.1998.tb00130.x
Subject(s) - language change , state (computer science) , power (physics) , subject (documents) , character (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , sociology , the symbolic , political science , political corruption , political economy , object (grammar) , criminology , law , politics , psychology , art , linguistics , philosophy , physics , geometry , literature , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , library science , computer science , psychoanalysis
— 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.