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The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chavez by Thomas Ponniah, Jonathan Eastwood (Paperback, 2011)

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

Publisher
Harvard University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Francisco Armada, Haejoo Chung, Javier Corrales, Fernando Coronil, Gioconda Espina, Qamar Mahmood, Margarita Lopez Maya, Luis Lander
ISBN-13
9780674061385
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108556935

Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Thomas Ponniah, Jonathan Eastwood
Publication Name
The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chavez
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Politics, History
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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