Dissensus in the Community: Disrupting Neoliberal Affects in La Comunidad

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-91
Author(s):  
Mónica López Lerma
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Political Character ◽  
Real Strength

Chapter three rethinks the notions of political community and democracy through Alex de la Iglesia’s La Comunidad (2000), and places them in the context of the anxieties attending Spain’s integration in the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. Taking as starting points Jean Baudrillard’s vision of the “consumer society” and Jacques Rancière’s account of the “politics of consensus,” this chapter suggests that La Comunidad launches a powerful critique of the ideological presuppositions and “regimes of visibility” of Western liberal democracies. However, departing from previous analyses, it is argued that the real strength of the film lies not in its ability to render visible this order of domination, but rather in its ability to create an aesthetics of dissensus within the sensory world of the viewer. In this way, the film demonstrates not just the aesthetic dimension of politics, but the political character of aesthetics.

The Political Sustainability of European Monetary Union

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID C. McKAY
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
Party System ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Applied Economics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Political Sustainability ◽  
Diverse Nations

This article synthesizes a large body of work in applied economics on the likely effects of European Monetary Union with an established literature in political science on the political sustainability of intervention by central or federal authorities in the economies of diverse nations, states or regions. Three possible economic scenarios resulting from EMU are identified – fiscal centralization, monetary discipline and loose money. The greatly enhanced central role implied by the first two would be difficult to legitimize in the context of the absence of a European citizen identity or party system. Historical precedent suggests that, in democracies, both central redistribution in social spending and retrenchment of established social programmes are facilitated by jurisdiction-wide political parties. The loose money scenario, while viable in most member states, would be unlikely to be acceptable in Germany. The article concludes, therefore, that all three scenarios most often predicted by the economics literature carry with them a risk that they will be difficult to sustain politically.

scholarly journals El impacto de la unión monetaria en la gobernación del Estado

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
José María Baño León
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Autonomous Decision ◽  
Regulatory Reforms

<p align="justify">La Unión Monetaria exige disciplina presupuestaria, pero al mismo tiempo, reduce drásticamente las posibilidades de una gobernación independiente. El trabajo examina el desfase entre el debate político interno en España y las posibilidades reales de una política autónoma, una vez que el Tribunal de Justicia (asunto “Pringle”) ha recordado los severos límites de la solidaridad europea. Por último se analizan críticamente algunas de las reformas legislativas recientes. </p> <p align="justify"><b>The European Monetary Union demands a budgetary discipline. Nonetheless, at the same time, it drastically reduces the possibilities of autonomous decision making. This paper examines the mismatch between the political debate in Spain and the actual possibilities for independent policy making; particularly, once the ECJ has recalled (in the “Pringle” case), the severe obligations arising out of the European solidarity principle. The paper concludes with a critical analysis of some of the recent regulatory reforms. </b></p>

Chapter II. The World Economy

1990 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 25-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J. Barrell ◽  
Andrew Gurney ◽  
Stephen Dulake
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Developments

In the last six months political and economic developments in Europe have moved very rapidly. The democratisation of the East has been quite remarkable, and much heralded, but the change in the political agenda in the West has been almost as important, although much quieter. The drive toward European Monetary Union seems to have speeded up, although there are many important issues still to be settled.

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