New Book from Nelson Arteaga Botello

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Botello, Nelson Arteaga. 2024. Esfera civil y semántica de la disputa política. San José: FLACSO.

https://www.flacso.edu.mx/libro/esfera-civil-y-semantica-de-la-disputa-politica/

Abstract

“The book addresses the structures of the meaning of politics in Mexico in recent decades. It studies how the symbolic codes of populism, patrimonialism, and democracy are tensely linked. Based on the observation of specific moments in the recent life of the country accounts for the expansion and contraction of the communicative and regulatory institutions of the Mexican civil sphere. The book allows us to understand the competition of different horizons of legitimacy that fight for expanded or restricted forms of inclusion and civil solidarity. It is a theoretical and methodological proposal to examine similar cases in the Latin American dynamic.”

abstracto

“Esfera civil y semántica de la disputa política analiza las estructuras de significado de la política en México en las últimas décadas. Se estudia cómo se enlazan de manera tensa los códigos simbólicos del populismo, el patrimonialismo y la democracia. A partir de la observación de momentos específicos de la vida reciente del país, se da cuenta de la expansión y contracción de las instituciones comunicativas y regulativas de la esfera civil mexicana. Esto permite conocer la competencia de distintos horizontes de legitimidad que apuestan por formas ampliadas o restringidas de inclusión y solidaridad social. Se trata de una propuesta teórica y metodológica para examinar casos similares en la dinámica latinoamericana.”

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Besides civil sphere theory, her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

https://www.cstnetwork.org/jaworsky-bio
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