Description: Populism and Performance applies the analytical frameworks of performances studies to illuminate the populist uprising in support of Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. It focuses on the figure of the devil in festival, theater, and film to trace the formation and growth of chavismo as a movement.
Review Quotes: "This is a first-rate work that demonstrates Marino's thorough command of the secondary literature of both theoretical and empirical significance. The author breaks new ground by questioning the validity of alternative views of populism that stress the polarizing, as opposed to the unifying, tendency of populist movements. This book will appeal broadly to scholars across several areas of politics and performance practice, and provide a rich theoretical discussion that is relevant to the fields of philosophy and political science." --Steven Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century