Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela : : The Revolutionary Petro-State.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017. {copy}2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
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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.