The place of the revolt: pulperías and insurgency in Venezuela (1750–1850)

Abstract

The Venezuelan pulperías were spaces that gathered a great diversity of foods, forms, assistants and ideas, many of them contrary to the discipline that was forging the crisis of the colonial society. Being a space that is «in between», where the tactics of the dispossessed emerge, we can address the symptoms of a conflictive sociability, which was redefining «modern» concepts in light of these «slums of bad life», where, according to the ordinances should only coexist a bunch of vagrants and bandits. Maybe not the place of the «organic revolutions», but the one of the revolts, intense and fleeting.