We Are the State!: Barrio Activism in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution - Hardcover

Valencia, Cristobal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816531560 ISBN 13: 9780816531561

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 2015

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"Anyone interested in social movements, Venezuela, or urban politics in Latin America should find this book interesting."--Leigh Binford, author of "The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights" "Valencia is breaking ground through his research methods."--Journal of Anthropological Research "An undeniable and welcome contribution to existing literature on popular organizing in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution"--Hispanic American Historical Review "Give[s] insight into some of the tensions present when a democratizing movement does not distinguish clearly between state, government, and civil society and [into] the extent to which popular actors might be agents for change."--Latin American Perspectives "Very few anthropologists could have integrated into the urban barrios of Caracas as [Valencia] did, and fewer still could have attained this level of active participation. He knows many working class barrios of urban Caracas very well indeed."--Leigh Binford, author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights "Highly original and, thanks to many years living in the barrios, rich and textured."--Daniel Hellinger, author of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? "Highly original and, thanks to many years living in the barrios, rich and textured."--Daniel Hellinger, author of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? "Very few anthropologists could have integrated into the urban barrios of Caracas as [Valencia] did, and fewer still could have attained this level of active participation. He knows many working class barrios of urban Caracas very well indeed."--Leigh Binford, author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights Valencia is breaking ground through his research methods. Journal of Anthropological Research An undeniable and welcome contribution to existing literature on popular organizing in Venezuela s Bolivarian Revolution Hispanic American Historical Review " Highly original and, thanks to many years living in the barrios, rich and textured. Daniel Hellinger, author of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last?" Very few anthropologists could have integrated into the urban barrios of Caracas as [Valencia] did, and fewer still could have attained this level of active participation.He knows many working class barrios of urban Caracas very well indeed. Leigh Binford, author of The El Mozote Massacre: Anthropology and Human Rights"

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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.

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• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0816531560
• ISBN 13: 9780816531561
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224