Penélope Plaza Azuaje

Gebundenes Buch

Culture as Renewable Oil

How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate

Beschreibung

This book examines the Venezuelan petro-state from a cultural perspective. It unpacks the complex mediations that take place between a resource-intensive political regime and the work of culture and cultural producers in relation to policy and discourse. It demonstrates how oil is a cultural resource, in addition to a natural resource, implying

Autor

Penélope Plaza Azuaje is a Venezuelan architect, researcher and urban artivist. She researches the entanglements between oil, politics, culture and urban space, with a particular interest in urban artivism, and contemporary Venezuelan petro-politics. She holds a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management from City University of London and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently she is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9781138573772
• ISBN-10: 1138573779
• Artikelnr.: 54892821