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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 Paperback. 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: 159 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823263660
SKU
V9780823263660
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About Rafael Sanchez
Rafael Sanchez is Senior Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Reviews for Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism
Very few, if any, works develop a genealogy of populism in Latin America, especially from the perspective of monuments and their meaning, a topic mainly addressed by sociocultural studies seeking to make sense of phenomena that interconnect memory, power, and change. In this book Sanchez provocatively traces the role played by monuments in the rise of populism.
Hispanic American ... Read more

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