HIS330H5 Chapter Notes -Peronism, Cultural Studies
Document Summary
Cultural studies is a diverse and often contentious exercise, encompassing different positions and trajectories in specific contexts, addressing many questions, drawing nourishment from multiple roots, and shaping itself within different institutions and locations. Cultural studies defined by its mutability (ability to change and this is a good thing) Cultural studies concern with hegemony resonates powerfully in latin america context where politics and culture have long been obviously intertwined. On the other hand, latin america thought has also been preoccupied with issues less prominent with cultural studies, above all the question of national or regional identity. Cultural studies and hegemony theory have an emphasis on their shared populism. Perhaps the most successful populist movement: peronism (dominated argentine political and cultural life) Peronism came about after social demonstrations freed peron from prison and led him to become president. Its long lasting ability to secure popular consent contrasts starkly with the coercion employed by argentina"s various military regimes.
