Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chavez
Redaktion: David Smilde, Smilde

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Produktbeschreibung

Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy brings together a variety of perspectives on participation and democracy in Venezuela. An interdisciplinary group of contributors focuses on the everyday lives of Venezuelans, examining the forms of participation that have emerged in communal councils, cultural activities, blogs, community media, and several other forums. The essays validate many of the critiques of democracy under Chavez, as well as much of the praise. They show that while government corporatism and clientelism are constant threats, the forms of political and cultural participation discussed are creating new discourses, networks, and organizational spaces-for better and for worse. With open yet critical minds, the contributors seek to analyze Venezuela's Bolivarian democratic experience through empirical research. In doing so, they reveal a nuanced process, a richer and more complex one than is conveyed in international journalism and scholarship exclusively focused on the words and actions of Hugo Chavez.ContributorsCarolina Acosta-AlzuruJulia BuxtonLuis Duno GottbergSujatha FernandesMaria Pilar Garcia-GuadillaKirk A. HawkinsDaniel HellingerMichael E. JohnsonLuis E. LanderMargarita Lopez-MayaElizabeth Gackstetter NicholsCoraly PaganGuillermo RosasNaomi SchillerDavid SmildeAlejandro Velasco

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394310
• Artikelnr.: 54927393

Autorenporträt

David Smilde is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia and the president of the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Qualitative Sociology and the author of Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism. Daniel Hellinger is Professor of Political Science at Webster University in St. Louis and the former president of the Venezuelan Studies Section. He is the author of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? and a co-editor of Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / Julia Buxton ix
Introduction: Participation, Politics, and Culture-Emerging Fragments of
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy / David Smilde 1
1. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy I: How Does "El Pueblo" Conceive of
Democracy? / Daniel Hellinger 28
2. Participatory Democracy in Venezuela: Origins, Ideas, and Implementation
/ Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander 58
3. Urban Land Committees: Co-operation, Autonomy, and Protagonism / María
Pilar García-Guadilla 80
4. Catia Sees You: Community Television, Clientelism, and the State in the
Chávez Era / Naomi Schiller 105
5. Radio Bemba in an Age of Electronic Media: The Dynamics of Popular
Communication in Chávez's Venezuela / Sujatha Fernandes 133
6. "We Are Still Rebels": The Challenge of Popular History in Bolivarian
Venezuela / Alejandro Velasco 159
7. The Misiones of the Chávez Government / Kirk A. Hawkins, Guillermo
Rosas, and Michael E. Johnson 188
8. Defying the Iron Law of Oligarchy II: Debating Democracy Online in
Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger 221
9. Venezuela's Telenovela: Polarization and Political Discourse in Cosita
Rica / Carolina Acosta-Alzuru 246
10. The Color of Mobs: Racial Politics, Ethnopopulism, and Representation
in the Chávez Era / Luis Duno Gottberg 273
11. Taking Possession of Public Discourse: Women and the Practice of
Political Poetry in Venezuela / Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols 300
12. Christianity and Politics in Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy:
Catholics, Evangelicals, and Political Polarization / David Smilde and
Coraly Pagan 317
Afterword: Chavismo and Venezuelan Democracy in a New Decade / Daniel
Hellinger 342
References 345
Index