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Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela : the revolutionary petro-state

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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Series Title
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Call Number
987.0642 STR g
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan.,
Collation
xxi, 357p. : ill.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783319595078
Classification
987.0642
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Media Type
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Edition
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Subject(s)
Politics and government
Political participation
Political corruption
Political sociology
Political culture
Venezuela
Oil industries
Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects
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