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Venezuela`s Bolivarian Democracy – Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

Autor David Smilde, Daniel Hellinger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2011
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on democracy in Venezuelan civil society. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary Venezuelans, examining the participatory forms of democracy that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and many other forums. The essays show that while Venezuelans have gained significant experience with new forms of social organization and participatory governance during the past decade, the central government still often displays a top-down corporatism. Many grassroots chavistas decry irregularities and allege manipulation of internal processes by bureaucrats and politicians. The essays in this collection validate some of their concerns, yet the contributors do not seize on these shortcomings to dismiss Venezuela’s Bolivarian democratic experience as a familiar story of populism and clientelism. Instead, they reveal a nuanced process, a richer and more complex one than is conveyed in international journalism and scholarship focused on the words and actions of Hugo Chávez. Contributors: Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Julia Buxton, Luis Duno Gottberg , Sujatha Fernandes, María Pilar García-Guadilla, Kirk A. Hawkins, Daniel C. Hellinger, Michael E. Johnson, Luis E. Lander, Margarita López-Maya, Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Coraly Pagan, Guillermo Rosas, Naomi Schiller, David Smilde, Alejandro Velasco
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822350415
ISBN-10: 0822350416
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 12 photos, 1 map, 13 tables, 8 figures
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Foreword: Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy / Julia Buxton; Introduction: Participation, Politics, and Culture--Emerging Fragments of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy / David Smilde; 1: Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy I: How Does “El Pueblo” Conceive of Democracy? / Daniel Hellinger; 2: Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: Origins, Ideas, and Implementation / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander; 3: Urban Land Committees: Co-optation, Autonomy, and Protagonism / María Pilar García-Guadilla; 4: Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and the State in the Chávez Era / Naomi Schiller; 5: Radio Bemba in an Age of Electronic Media: The Dynamics of Popular Communication in Chávez’s Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes; 6: “We Are Still Rebels”: The Challenge of Popular History in Bolivarian Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco; 7: The Misiones of the Chávez Government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson; 8: Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy II: Debating Democracy Online in Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger; 9: Venezuela’s Telenovela: Polarization and Political Discourse in Cosita Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru; 10: The Color of Mobs: Racial Politics, Ethnopopulism, and Representation in the Chávez Era / Luis Duno Gottberg; 11: Taking Possession of Public Discourse: Women and the Practice of Political Poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols; 12: Christianity and Politics in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy: Catholics, Evangelicals, and Political Polarization / David Smilde and Coraly Pagan; Afterword: Chavismo and Venezuelan Democracy in a New Decade / Daniel HellingerReferences; Index

Recenzii

"Focusing on the everyday experience of Venezuelans, the contributors examine what they see as outlets for ongoing emocratic participation in Venezuela, including cultural activities, blogs, community media and more. While the Chávez regime has its failings, they say, new political spaces and networks continue to emerge.” - Survival, June-July 2012

“Venezuela’s Bolivarian Democracy makes it clear that, while transforming the political landscape, the Chávez era also embodies important continuities with the country’s recent past. The serious problems the country faces and social movements that support Chávez did not emerge overnight; they are rooted in the inequities of the oil economy that took hold during the twentieth-century. This book is a must-read for anybody trying to make sense of the ongoing process of change that is remaking Venezuela.” Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela

“This book evaluates Hugo Chávez’ Venezuela with a clear eye. Through nuanced attention to new empirical research in a rapidly changing context--who speaks, what people believe, who decides, and how power works--it offers a framework for analyzing the intertwined democratic and non-democratic aspects of politics as it is practiced and lived. This multi-sited approach--looking from neighborhoods to media, activists to government institutions--could be applied with equal success to the post-revolutionary regimes of Cardenas or Castro, the populist governments of Vargas or Peron, and the liberal democracies of the present.” Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University


"Focusing on the everyday experience of Venezuelans, the contributors examine what they see as outlets for ongoing emocratic participation in Venezuela, including cultural activities, blogs, community media and more. While the Chavez regime has its failings, they say, new political spaces and networks continue to emerge." - Survival, June-July 2012 "Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy makes it clear that, while transforming the political landscape, the Chavez era also embodies important continuities with the country's recent past. The serious problems the country faces and social movements that support Chavez did not emerge overnight; they are rooted in the inequities of the oil economy that took hold during the twentieth-century. This book is a must-read for anybody trying to make sense of the ongoing process of change that is remaking Venezuela." Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela "This book evaluates Hugo Chavez' Venezuela with a clear eye. Through nuanced attention to new empirical research in a rapidly changing context--who speaks, what people believe, who decides, and how power works--it offers a framework for analyzing the intertwined democratic and non-democratic aspects of politics as it is practiced and lived. This multi-sited approach--looking from neighborhoods to media, activists to government institutions--could be applied with equal success to the post-revolutionary regimes of Cardenas or Castro, the populist governments of Vargas or Peron, and the liberal democracies of the present." Jeffrey W. Rubin, Boston University

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Reveals a nuanced process, richer and more complex than is conveyed in international journalism and scholarship focused on the words and actions of Hugo Chávez