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Rafael Sánchez - Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism - 9780823263653 - V9780823263653
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Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

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Description for Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism Hardback. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental governmentality" that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Num Pages: 408 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 30. .

Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a stubborn historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which the subaltern populations menacingly return to the nation’s public spaces in the form of crowds.
Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, and drawing on a rich theoretical literature ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823263653
SKU
V9780823263653
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About Rafael Sánchez
Rafael Sánchez (1950–2024) was senior lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He is the author of Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism (Fordham, 2016).

Reviews for Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism
"I found this book spellbinding. It has a wildly original thesis (of 'monumentalization') to expound. It is staggeringly erudite in terms of Venezuelan history. And it has a marvelously relaxed writing style-ironic, easy, witty, and rounded. Like a mature wine composed of various blends, it brings wonderfully well-wrought ideas to the reader's attention, and while it seems to bear the ... Read more

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