Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela [electronic resource] : The Revolutionary Petro-State / by Iselin Åsedotter Strønen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: XXI, 357 p. 23 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319595078
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.2 23
LOC classification:
  • JA76
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: Understanding Venezuela Before and Under Chávez -- 2. Barrio Lives and Histories -- 3. Contested Community Politics -- 4. The State as a Battlefield -- 5. Popularizing the State -- 6. Moralities, Money, and Extractive Capitalism -- 7. Collective Consumption and the Magical State -- 8. Corruption in the Petro-State -- 9. Conclusion: Understanding the Revolutionary Petro-State.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular politics, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumption, oil wealth, and corruption gained salience in the Bolivarian process. A central argument is that the Bolivarian process was an attempt to challenge the practices, ideas, and values inherited from Venezuela's historical development as an oil-producing state. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Caracas' shantytowns, state institutions, as well as everyday life and public culture, Strønen explores the complexities and challenges in fostering deep social and political change.
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1. Introduction: Understanding Venezuela Before and Under Chávez -- 2. Barrio Lives and Histories -- 3. Contested Community Politics -- 4. The State as a Battlefield -- 5. Popularizing the State -- 6. Moralities, Money, and Extractive Capitalism -- 7. Collective Consumption and the Magical State -- 8. Corruption in the Petro-State -- 9. Conclusion: Understanding the Revolutionary Petro-State.

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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular politics, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumption, oil wealth, and corruption gained salience in the Bolivarian process. A central argument is that the Bolivarian process was an attempt to challenge the practices, ideas, and values inherited from Venezuela's historical development as an oil-producing state. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Caracas' shantytowns, state institutions, as well as everyday life and public culture, Strønen explores the complexities and challenges in fostering deep social and political change.

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