The Politics of Culture

The cultural turn in the social sciences of the 1970s had a profound impact in Latin America and led to the emergence of a cultural political economy as a critical lens into society and its futures. Against the linear understanding of modernity and modernization it posed a condition of hybridity as a key to understanding the nature of the dependent societies of Latin America. It also led, indirectly, to an engagement with postmodernism and its critique of meta narratives and the possible emergence of a peripheral postmodernism. This will contribute to an understanding of globalization from a Latin American perspective.