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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.

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