...Offers an overview of the book’s postcolonial “monumental governmentality” formed vis-à-vis chronically unfranchised populations released by the breakdown of the Spanish colonial order. Prevalent in Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America, this governmentality is a montage of ‘monuments...

... of the populist “monumental governmentality” that in response to this predicament began to take shape in that nation at the time of independence. Informed by a Bolivarian political theology, the nation’s representatives, or “dancing Jacobins,” recursively draw on the repertoire of busts, portraits, and equestrian...