The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change Under Chavez - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674061381 ISBN 13 : 9780674061385

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

Synopsis

Is Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Most books and articles tend to view the Chávez 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 Chávez 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 Chávez government are helping articulate a new Latin American left.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Thomas Ponniah is Lecturer and Assistant Director of Studies in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and Faculty Associate in the Program on Justice, Welfare, and Economics, Harvard University.

Jonathan Eastwood is Boetsch Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington & Lee University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674061381
• ISBN 13: 9780674061385
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Ponniah Thomas, Eastwood Jonathan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible