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'The Community' as a Multivocal Concept: Everyday Urban Life and Grassroots Politics in Caracas' Informal Neighbourhoods
In: Ethnos: journal of anthropology, Band 88, Heft 3, S. 597-617
ISSN: 1469-588X
Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela by Robert Samet
In: Anthropological quarterly: AQ, Band 93, Heft 4, S. 837-842
ISSN: 1534-1518
Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State: Lower-level State Officials and Grassroots Activism in Venezuela
In: Latin American perspectives, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 159-179
ISSN: 1552-678X
Venezuela's communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006. The promotores integrales, lower-level state employees who assist the communal councils in their everyday work, serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular participation and transforming state practices in the context of radical social change. While the cultural politics and knowledges of the popular sectors have become imprinted on the Venezuelan state, attempts to change the state in accordance with Bolivarian ideology are subject to intense contestation and struggle.Los consejos comunales de Venezuela son órganos para la participación popular establecidos legalmente y puestos en práctica mayormente en comunidades pobres desde 2006. Los promotores integrales –empleados estatales de menor rango que ayudan a los consejos comunales en su trabajo diario –sirven como mediadores entre las políticas del estado y la política comunitaria. El estudio de sus roles y perspectivas nos ofrece importantes claves para comprender la complejidad de implementar políticas de participación popular y transformar las prácticas del estado en el contexto de un cambio social radical. Mientras que las políticas culturales y los saberes de los sectores populares han quedado grabados en el estado venezolano, los esfuerzos para cambiar al estado de acuerdo con la ideología bolivariana están sujetos a una intensa impugnación y luchas constantes.
Social life of economic inequalities in contemporary Latin America: decades of change
In: Approaches to social inequality and difference
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.
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