In the 1990s and into the new millennium, we have witnessed (and continue to witness) a number of phenomenon: transitions to democracy; truth commissions; persistent socioeconomic inequality; continued battles over memory and justice; struggles for gender equality, sexual rights, equal access to education; as well as the return to power of leftist governments and political actors who just two decades earlier were brutally persecuted. These phenomena coexist with the entrenchment of neoliberalism in the region, which, next to bodily and psychological violence, is perhaps the greatest legacy of the recent wave of Latin American dictatorships. The neoliberal moment has also sparked battles over a lost sense of solidarity and community that many suggest was more prevalent and palpable in previous historical moments.
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In a similar vein, Leonor Arfuch, signals a “more widespread [obsession with the first person] that not only involves film, but also visual arts, literature, the media, politics, and even academic research.” This insistence on the subjective, as we have said, certainly has to do with rights-based claims by individuals and groups, but it may also be telling us something important about the nature of the globalized, neoliberal era in which we live: a time in which individualism is rampant and social media or reality TV, among other media, bombard us daily with first-person
In a similar vein, Leonor Arfuch, signals a “more widespread [obsession with the first person] that not only involves film, but also visual arts, literature, the media, politics, and even academic research.” This insistence on the subjective, as we have said, certainly has to do with rights-based claims by individuals and groups, but it may also be telling us something important about the nature of the globalized, neoliberal era in which we live: a time in which individualism is rampant and social media or reality TV, among other media, bombard us daily with first-person