Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State

• Main Author: Iselin Åsedotter Strønen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; petro-state; extractive capitalism; Hugo Chavez; corruption; revolution
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure,...