Grassroots Politics And Oil Culture In Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-state
by Iselin Åsedotter Strønen /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0
license.
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.
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.