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- Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Chapter 1. Archaeologies
- pp. 45-95
- Chapter 2. Bullying for Independence
- pp. 96-122
- Chapter 3. Statues and Statutes
- pp. 123-147
- Chapter 4. Theater for the Masses
- pp. 148-166
- Chapter 5. Monumental Governmentality
- pp. 167-196
- Interlude: Dancing Jacobins
- pp. 197-200
- Chapter 6. The French Repertoire
- pp. 201-226
- Chapter 10. “In My Image and Likeness”
- pp. 293-326
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 331-336
- Works Cited
- pp. 363-382
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823264186
Related ISBN(s)
9780823263653
MARC Record
OCLC
944302040
Pages
408
Launched on MUSE
2016-03-12
Language
English
Open Access
No