Revisiting an outlier

The previously unsuspected locus of Uruguay’s exceptionalism

Authors

  • Amparo Menéndez-Carrión 172/5000 Doctorate in International Relations and Comparative Politics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, United States of America

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26489/rvs.v32i44.6

Keywords:

citizenship, public space, polis, political theory, Uruguay

Abstract

Uruguay’s exceptionality within the context of Latin America and beyond has been well established in the scholarly literature for some time. Most fragments of experience which have sustained the notion of 'Uruguayan exceptionality’, turned into a sort of commonplace, belong to the past. My purpose in this paper is to show the plausibility of relocating this 'exceptionality' by focusing on the changing relationship between Uruguay’s itinerary and the polis, posed as a specific kind of discursive space, form of (public) capital and regulatory regime. This formulation allows an integral re-reading of Uruguay’s historicity, the making of citizenship and things-public, and suggests new entries for action-oriented theory, to conclude that the locus of Uruguay’s exceptionality is none other than theory and, more specifically, political theory.

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Author Biography

  • Amparo Menéndez-Carrión, 172/5000 Doctorate in International Relations and Comparative Politics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, United States of America

    Academic specializing in comparative politics and Latin American studies. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and his master's and doctorate in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She was General Director of FLACSO Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences in Quito) for two consecutive periods (1987-1995)

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Published

2019-10-11

How to Cite

Revisiting an outlier: The previously unsuspected locus of Uruguay’s exceptionalism. (2019). Revista De Ciencias Sociales, 32(44), 123-150. https://doi.org/10.26489/rvs.v32i44.6