Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela

The Revolutionary Petro-State
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-86640-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Iselin Åsedotter Strønen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Affiliated Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway.