This edited volume first contextualizes and explains the results of the last re-election of Hugo Chávez in terms of its geopolitical conditionings and implications. Contributors tackle Latin American geopolitics by analyzing Venezuelan foreign policy and the country's role in continental projects of supra-national integration. Contributors also examine electoral strategy and tactics in order to show how the two main candidates built their campaign on emotional grounds as much on rational ones. Compiling state-of-the-art research on Latin American and Venezuelan politics, this book will appeal…mehr
This edited volume first contextualizes and explains the results of the last re-election of Hugo Chávez in terms of its geopolitical conditionings and implications. Contributors tackle Latin American geopolitics by analyzing Venezuelan foreign policy and the country's role in continental projects of supra-national integration. Contributors also examine electoral strategy and tactics in order to show how the two main candidates built their campaign on emotional grounds as much on rational ones. Compiling state-of-the-art research on Latin American and Venezuelan politics, this book will appeal to academics and professionals who specialize in Latin American studies, international relations, democracy, and indigenous peoples.
Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández has a multidisciplinary background in anthropology and political science and currently lectures in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Sydney. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Latin America and Spain, and has lived, worked, and researched in Venezuela for nearly a decade. Among his recent publications is Everlasting Countdowns: Race, Ethnicity and National Censuses in Latin American States (coedited with Sabine Kradolfer).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuelan Politics and the International of Discontent; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández 2. Chávez and American Integration; Tim Anderson 3. "Ploughing the Sea" in a World of Regions: Venezuela's Role in Reviving Latin American Regionalism for the 21st Century; Anthea McCarthy-Jones 4. Petrocaribe: A project for Development in the Caribbean and Central America?; Rodrigo Acuña 5. The Right to Information: Indigenous Media and the Bolivarian Revolution; Kathryn Lehman 6. Indigenous Peoples, Populist Logics and Polarization: Understanding the Pivotal Role of Indigeneity in Venezuelan Elections; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández 7. Hope and Fear in Venezuelan Democracy: Violence, Citizen Insecurity and Competing Neoliberal and Socialist Urban Imaginaries; Michael Humphrey and Estela Valverde 8. Ordering Discontent: Domestic and International Dynamics of the Bolivarian Revolution; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández
1. Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuelan Politics and the International of Discontent; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández 2. Chávez and American Integration; Tim Anderson 3. "Ploughing the Sea" in a World of Regions: Venezuela's Role in Reviving Latin American Regionalism for the 21st Century; Anthea McCarthy-Jones 4. Petrocaribe: A project for Development in the Caribbean and Central America?; Rodrigo Acuña 5. The Right to Information: Indigenous Media and the Bolivarian Revolution; Kathryn Lehman 6. Indigenous Peoples, Populist Logics and Polarization: Understanding the Pivotal Role of Indigeneity in Venezuelan Elections; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández 7. Hope and Fear in Venezuelan Democracy: Violence, Citizen Insecurity and Competing Neoliberal and Socialist Urban Imaginaries; Michael Humphrey and Estela Valverde 8. Ordering Discontent: Domestic and International Dynamics of the Bolivarian Revolution; Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández
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