Jon Beasley-Murray‘s Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America has received an honorable mention for the Modern Language Assocation‘s prestigious Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, which is presented each year “for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.”
The prize citation reads:
A study that moves elegantly and daringly from political theory to cultural analysis, Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin America puts Latin America on the map as a complex region in which hegemony, habit, and affect are constantly being contested and renegotiated in response to the vitality of the multitude. Jon Beasley-Murray does this through a series of engaging discussions of contemporary theorists who dialogue directly with Latin American test cases highlighting the relation between Peronist populism, hegemony theory, and the limits of civil society. With clarity, intellectual rigor, and conceptual sophistication, Beasley-Murray seeks to challenge the dominant critical paradigms of the cultural-studies-oriented humanities and social sciences.