The politics of culture in the Chávez era / edited by Lisa Blackmore, Rebecca Jarman and Penélope Plaza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blackmore, Lisa, editor.

Jarman, Rebecca, editor.

Plaza, Penélope, editor.

Series:

Bulletin of Latin American research book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chávez Frías, Hugo.

Manners and customs.

Cultural policy.

Venezuela--Cultural policy.

Venezuela.

Venezuela--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

The dawn of the twenty-first century was accompanied by a turn to the Left for Latin America, heralded by the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. To date, no single book has assessed the manifold impacts that the politics of chavismo had on the cultural sphere. The Politics of Culture in the Chávez Era maps key shifts and trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chávez's four presidential terms (1999-2013), situating these in the regional context of "Pink Tide" politics. The chapters in this ambitious, interdisciplinary volume offer a range of perspectives, from broad overviews of cultural and media policy, to close readings of varied aesthetic manifestations. Encompassing conventional cultural products, such as recent film and literature, as well as engagements with cultural imaginaries that play out in political protest, urban culture, and grassroots heritage projects, the authors examine how individual and collective imaginaries were negotiated and formed within, alongside or against the state with the advancement of the Bolivarian Revolution--back cover.

Contents:

1 Cultural Policies and the Bolivarian Revolution in the Socialist Venezuela of Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) p. 20 / Gisela Kozak-Rovero

2 Hegemony in a Global Age: Mutations of the Communicational Landscapes in Contemporary Venezuela p. 38 / Manuel Silva-Ferrer

3 The Indian Within: Negotiating Indigenous Identity among Dominant Images of Indigeneity in Venezuela p. 57 / Natalia García Bonet

4 Oil's Colonial Residues: Geopolitics, Identity, and Resistance in Venezuela p. 76 / Donald V. Kingsbury

5 Somatic Power in the Bolivarian Revolution: Biopolitics and Sacrifice in the Case of Franklin Brito p. 94 / Paula Vásquez Lezama

6 Community, Heritage and the State: Rebuilding Armando Reverón's El Castillete p. 109 / Desiree Domec

7 El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela p. 136 / Lisa Blackmore

8 Queering the Barrios: The Politics of Space and Sexuality in Mariana Rondón's Film, Pelo malo (2013) p. 158 / Rebecca Jarman

9 Chronicles of Disenchantment: Rethinking Venezuelan National Identity in Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles's Los desterrados p. 181 / María Teresa Vera-Rojas.

ISBN:

1119531039

9781119531036

OCLC:

1105258343