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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Revolution in Venezuela
• Subtitle: Social and Political Change under Chavez
• Author: Jonathan Eastwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• EAN: 9780674061385
• ISBN: 0674061381
• ID: 04635615
• Publisher: Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
• Weight: 550 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2011

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