Matt Wilde

A Blessing and a Curse (eBook, PDF)

Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in an urban barrio over the course of a decade, Matt Wilde argues that everyday life in this period was intimately shaped by a critical contradiction: that in their efforts to capture a larger portion of oil money and distribute it more widely among the population, the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro pursued policies that ultimately entrenched Venezuela in the very position of dependency they sought to overcome. Offering a new synthesis between anthropological work on energy, politics, and morality, the book explores how the use of oil money to fund the revolution's social programs and political reforms produced profound cultural anxieties about the contaminating effects of petroleum revenues in everyday settings. Tracing how these anxieties rippled out into community life, family networks, and local politics, Wilde shows how questions about how to live a good life came to be intimately shaped by Venezuela's contradictory relationship with oil. In doing so, he brings a vital perspective to contemporary debates about energy transitions by proposing a new way of thinking about the political and moral economies of natural resources in postcolonial settings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503637085
• Artikelnr.: 68427916

Autorenporträt

Matt Wilde is an anthropologist and Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sowing the Oil
2. Portrait of a Political Family
3. Aspirations and Disparities in the Bolivarian Barrio
4. Insecurity and the Search for Moral Order
5. The Moral Life of Revolution
6. Petro-democracy and Its Discontents
7. The Weight of the Future
8. The Unraveling
9. Beyond the Magical State