The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez (Series on Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674061381 ISBN 13: 9780674061385

Verlag: Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Social and Political Change under Chávez

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This excellent book makes an important contribution to the scholarly debate on the meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution since the democratic election of Hugo Chavez to the presidency in 1998. While some scholars depict the Chavez regime as autocratic and undemocratic, others view Chavez's Venezuela as embodying 21st-century participatory democracy and socialism. Eastwood and Ponniah have assembled a collection of high-quality, well-researched essays in an attempt to overcome the polarized nature of academic debates on Chavez's Venezuela...This pathbreaking book shows that the Venezuelan experience with 21st century socialism transcends the country's borders by planting the seeds of an alternative modernity. -- M. E. Carranza Choice 20120201

Reseña del editor:

Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chavez truly revolutionary? Most books and articles tend to view the Chavez government in an either-or fashion. Some see the president as the shining knight of twenty-first-century socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. Despite passion on both sides, the Chavez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these essays make clear. A range of distinguished authors consider the nature of social change in contemporary Venezuela and explore a number of themes that help elucidate the sources of the nation's political polarization. The chapters range from Fernando Coronil's "Bolivarian Revolution," which examines the relationship between the state's social body (its population) and its natural body (its oil reserves), to an insightful look at women's rights by Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina. This volume shows that, while the future of the national process is unclear, the principles elaborated by the Chavez government are helping articulate a new Latin American left.

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• Verlag: Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674061381
• ISBN 13: 9780674061385
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Ponniah Thomas, Eastwood Jonathan