Dancing Jacobins : a Venezuelan genealogy of Latin American populism

Sánchez, Rafael 1950- (author.).

Summary: "Dancing Jacobins traces the populist 'monumental governmentality' that began to take shape in Venezuela and other Latin American nations around the time of independence, in response to the insistent return of subaltern populations in the form of crowds. Informed by a Bolivarian political theology, the nation's representatives, or 'dancing Jacobins, ' draw on the repertoire of busts, portraits, and equestrian statues of national heroes scattered across Venezuela in a montage of monuments and dancing--or universal and particular. To this day, the nervous oscillation between crowds and peoplehood intrinsic to this form of government has inflected the republic's institutions and constructs, which are haunted and imbued from within by the crowds they otherwise set out to mold, enframe, and address"--

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Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Populist Governmentality -- Overture -- Archeologies -- Bullying for Independence -- Statues and Statutes -- Theater for the Masses -- Monumental Governmentality -- The French Repertoire -- Scenes of the Imaginary I : The Fragile Collection -- Scenes of the Imaginary II : Bolívar Superstar -- The (Bolivarian) People is in the Army -- Conclusion: "In my image and likeness."
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.