Description |
1 online resource |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
A history written with oil -- Understanding the Bolivarian Revolution from below -- The politics of space, race, and class -- Contested community politics -- The state as a battlefield -- Negotiating the popular and the state -- Moralities, money, and extractive capitalism -- Collective consumption and the wealthy nation-state -- Corruption in the extractive state -- Final reflections : understanding the "revolutionary petro-state." |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks |
Subject |
Venezuela -- Politics and government -- 1999-
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Political culture -- Venezuela.
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Political participation -- Venezuela.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Venezuela.
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Political corruption -- Venezuela.
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Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
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Sociology.
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Regional studies.
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Oil industries. (OCoLC)fst01044641
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Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Venezuela. (OCoLC)fst01204166
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Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form: |
Print version: Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter, 1980- Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] 9783319595061 (DLC) 2017945573 (OCoLC)1004778315 |
ISBN |
9783319595078 |
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3319595075 |
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9783319595061 |
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3319595067 |
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