Sujatha Fernandes

Who Can Stop the Drums?

Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the influence of poor urban activists' social movements in Caracas, Venezuela, demonstrating the insufficencies of top-down, simplistic explanations of the country's political transitions and cultural politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346654
• ISBN-10: 0822346656
• Artikelnr.: 29936325

Autorenporträt

Sujatha Fernandes is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Individual and Collective Histories
1. Urban Political Histories
2. Poverty, Violence, and the Neoliberal Turn
3. Personal Lives
II. Everyday Life and Politics
4. Culture, Identity, and Urban Movements
5. Barrio-Based Media and Communications
6. The Takeover of the Alameda Theater
III. State-Society Mediation
7. The New Coalitional Politics of Social Movements
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index