ISBN:
9781503609723
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
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Illustrations (black and white), map (black and white).
Series Statement:
Stanford scholarship online
Keywords:
Odría, Manuel A
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Partido Aprista Peruano History 20th century
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Partido Aprista Peruano
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Legitimität
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Politische Ordnung
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Politische Stabilität
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Political stability History 20th century
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Legitimacy of governments History 20th century
;
Dictatorship History 20th century
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Peru
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Amazonas (Peru) Politics and government 20th century
;
Peru Politics and government 1919-1968
Abstract:
What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? 'The Encrypted State' engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. This work engages the notion of sacropolitics - the politics of mass group sacrifice - to make sense of state delusion. Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the role of state structures in this process. Investigating the role of everyday cultural practices and how affect and imagination structure political affairs, Nugent provides a greater understanding of the conditions of state formation, and failure.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.11126/stanford/9781503609037.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503609037.001.0001
