Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela The Revolutionary Petro-State

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 popu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2017
2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425393706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.