We Are the State!
Barrio Activism in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Seiten
2015
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-3156-1 (ISBN)
University of Arizona Press (Verlag)
978-0-8165-3156-1 (ISBN)
"This book is about Hugo Chavez's supporters: the Chavistas, the life-blood of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. "We are the State!" examines the race, class, and gender subjective experiences of the Chavistas in everyday processes of state formation and in establishing democracy"--Provided by publisher.
Chavistas are the local leaders and activists in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, working to establish democracy through government-sponsored social missions, community self-governance, and popular collectives. We Are the State! tells the story of their grassroots activism. In perspectives gleaned from participant observation with barrio residents in workplaces, communal kitchens, city-wide forums, grassroots meetings and assemblies, as well as family and recreational events, anthropologist Cristobal Valencia vividly recounts tensions between activists, local officials, and the wealthy opposition.
The author offers an anthropological analysis of the state, social movements, and democracy as lived experiences of the poor, gendered, and racialized residents of two parishes in Caracas, Venezuela, and Afro-Venezuelan communities nearby. Ethnographic research reveals the shift in relationships of power and the evolving political practices amongst the Chavistas, the Chavez government, and the opposition. Examining the subjective experiences of barrio residents in everyday processes of state formation, this book provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, arguing that they are a broad-based social movement and driving force behind a revolution struggling to transfer state power to organized civil society.
Through his intense engagement with the constantly changing social, political, and economic dynamics, Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela. He shows the unequal relationships between sectors of civil society and state formation as a process enmeshed in the struggles of civil society for social justice, demonstrating that the state is a sociopolitical entity that acts through civil society, rather than above it.
Chavistas are the local leaders and activists in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, working to establish democracy through government-sponsored social missions, community self-governance, and popular collectives. We Are the State! tells the story of their grassroots activism. In perspectives gleaned from participant observation with barrio residents in workplaces, communal kitchens, city-wide forums, grassroots meetings and assemblies, as well as family and recreational events, anthropologist Cristobal Valencia vividly recounts tensions between activists, local officials, and the wealthy opposition.
The author offers an anthropological analysis of the state, social movements, and democracy as lived experiences of the poor, gendered, and racialized residents of two parishes in Caracas, Venezuela, and Afro-Venezuelan communities nearby. Ethnographic research reveals the shift in relationships of power and the evolving political practices amongst the Chavistas, the Chavez government, and the opposition. Examining the subjective experiences of barrio residents in everyday processes of state formation, this book provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, arguing that they are a broad-based social movement and driving force behind a revolution struggling to transfer state power to organized civil society.
Through his intense engagement with the constantly changing social, political, and economic dynamics, Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela. He shows the unequal relationships between sectors of civil society and state formation as a process enmeshed in the struggles of civil society for social justice, demonstrating that the state is a sociopolitical entity that acts through civil society, rather than above it.
Cristobal Valencia is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, USA. He conducts collaborative ethnographic research on the interrelated nature of race, class, and gender with the state, social movements, and democracy.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.5.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 map, 10 halftones, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Tucson |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 464 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8165-3156-0 / 0816531560 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8165-3156-1 / 9780816531561 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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