Bolívar as precursor
Contested mythology, social movements, and twenty-first-century socialism in Bolivarian Venezuela
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7700896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald V Kingsbury (0000-0002-6365-279X, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-257 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0826-3663 • E-ISSN: 2333-1461 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08263663.2015.1044723 |
| OpenAlex | W1493327232 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay examines the social and political functions of the myth of Simón Bolívar in early twenty-first-century Venezuela. Against modernist positions that see myth as an element of “false consciousness”, I argue that Bolivarian mythology is productive. It structures socio-political subjectivity. It shapes behavior in and the infrastructure of cities. It regulates and informs the relationship of subjects to the normative time of development. As we see in the case of Bolivarianism, however, myths are also internally complicated. This essay outlines the functions of “el Libertador” in competing discursive constructions by Chavistas, the opposition, and the autonomous political networks that have emerged since the imposition of neoliberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. In conversation with the approaches to the myth of Yolanda Salas de Lecuna, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Manuel Caballero, I conclude that Bolívar and myth operate as important sights of negotiation, antagonism, and the construction of social life
Consciousness · Epistemology · Mythology · Normative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Cultural and political discourse analysis · History and Politics in Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |