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

• Author: Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; {copy}2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- At an Impasse -- Complicating the Picture -- A Revolutionary State -- The Lens of Oil -- The Revolutionary Petro-state -- The Absence of the Subalterns -- Petroleum and People -- Knowing Oil -- Everyday State-Making -- Capturing Realities -- Life in the Barrio -- Unbounded Barrios -- Everyday Barrio Life -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: A History Written with Oil -- Gomez's Rule -- El Trienio: 1945-1948 -- The Rule of Marcos Pérez Jiménez -- 1958-1998: A Pacted Democracy -- Locking the Political Game -- Betancourt's Line -- Carlos Andrés Pérez: First Term -- The Beginning of the End -- The Crisis Continues -- Pérez's Last Round -- Impeachment -- Paving the Way for Chávez -- "The Opening" -- The Exceptionalism Myth -- Oil, Puntofijismo and Foreign Oil -- Shaping the Petro-State -- The Formation of Petróleos de Venezuela S.A (PDVSA) -- Oil and Labor -- Re-ordering Venezuelan Society -- Oil, Nationalism and Modernity -- The Triad -- Oil and Struggle in the Chávez Era -- The People's Oil -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Audiovisuals -- Chapter 3: Understanding the Bolivarian Revolution from Below -- Shifting the Lens -- The Faceless Masses -- A History of Popular Organization -- 1960s: The Guerrilla Strategy -- 1970s: The Cultural Turn -- 1980s: The Battle Is in the Streets -- The Hostile State: Memories from the Fourth Republic -- Everyday Repression -- El Caracazo -- Oil in the Fourth Republic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Space, Race and Class -- Manifestations of Social Inequality -- Stratified Media Spaces -- Cleavages Revealed -- The Salience of Race -- The Myth of Racial Democracy -- Disposable Savages -- The Poor in Velvet Seats -- Monkeys, Marginals and Mobs.

Civil Society and Mobs -- The Ideology of the Resentful -- Institutionalized Prejudices -- Class Resentments Reversed -- Chávez, El Presidente and El Pana1 -- Sons and Daughters of Bolívar -- Caudillismo and Chávez's Charisma -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Contested Community Politics -- Understanding "Community" -- The Missions -- Steep Learning Curve -- Communal Power -- The Communal Councils -- Spatial and Social Landscapes -- Patterns and Processes -- The Particularities of 23 de Enero -- Under Siege -- Ambivalent Relationship -- From the General to the Specific -- The Story About the Centro de Diagnostico Integral (CDI) -- A Tale of a Stranded Project -- The Building of the CDI -- Finding Common Ground with the State -- Contesting the Colectivos -- Forging Community -- Roundtables -- Toward the End -- The End of the Story -- Community Action and the Politics of Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The State as a Battlefield -- Theorizing the State -- Hegemony and Practice -- Taking over the State (?) -- Structure, Agency and Habitus -- Organizing Power (s) -- Venezuelan State Practices -- The Practice of the Palanca -- Fiefdoms and Networks -- The Labor Conflict in Fundacomunal -- The Endogenous Right -- The Fragmented State Arm -- Chávez's Scolding -- The Opaqueness of the State -- The Penetrable State -- Drawing on Networks -- Institutional Inertia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Negotiating the Popular and the State -- Betwixt and Between: The Promotores Integrales -- Miriam's Road to Revolution -- Knowing El Pueblo -- A Cadre for the Revolution -- O Inventamos O Erramos -- A Hybrid Space -- O Inventamos O Erramos in Practice -- Exercising Popular Power -- Textures of Relations -- Development from Below -- Schools for Popular Power -- Metis and Popular Power -- Capturing Local Realities -- Negotiating Power.

The Meeting that Got Off Track -- Negotiating Hierarchy -- A Visit from the Mayor -- I Want to Talk Too -- Deflecting Criticism -- A Contested Bolivarian Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Moralities, Money and Extractive Capitalism -- Destructive Social Facts -- New Moral Economies -- Neoliberalism and the Social -- Understanding Local Interpretations of Capitalism -- Neoliberalism and the Social Body -- Oil Society -- Conspicuous Consumption in Venezuela -- The Boom -- The Ambivalence of Wealth -- The Power of Conspicuous Consumption -- Consumption in the Age of Chavismo -- Buying on a Whim -- Consumerism from Within -- Sambil Society -- Reappreciating the National-Popular -- Counter-Cultures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Audiovisuals -- Chapter 9: Collective Consumption and the Wealthy Nation-State -- Repaying the Debt -- The People's Oil -- The Paternalist State -- The Legacy of Assistentialism -- My Drop of Oil -- Papa Government -- New Values -- Mi Negra -- The Question of Oil Pathologies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Audiovisuals -- Chapter 10: Corruption and the Extractive State -- Anthropologies of Corruption -- A History of Stabilized Corruption -- The Dark Side of the Boom -- The Class Dimension of the Rule of Law -- Venezuelan Personhood and the Origins of Viveza -- Reversing and Contesting the Moral Crisis -- Negotiating Moralities -- The Corrupt State -- Ambivalent Moralities -- Corruption High and Low -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Final Reflections: Understanding the "Revolutionary Petro-State" -- Understanding Ideology -- Fissures Through History -- Venezuela's Rise and Fall -- The Devil's Excrement -- The Heterogeneity of Resource Wealth -- A Different Curse? -- Changing the Question -- Final Afterthoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Audiovisuals -- Index.