Magical State Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela

Name: Magical State Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela
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ISBN: 9780226116020

ISBN-10: 0226116026

ISBN-13: 9780226116020

Edition: 1997

Authors: Fernando Coronil

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In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Goacute;mez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive presidents appeared as transcendent figures who could magically transform Venezuela into a modern nation. During the 1974-78 oil boom, dazzling development projects promised finally to effect this transformation. Yet now the state must struggle to appease its foreign creditors, counter a declining economy, and contain a discontented citizenry. In critical dialogue with contemporary social theory, Fernando…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: The Magical State and Occidentalism



Premiere - The Nature of the Nation: State Fetishism and Nationalism



History's Nature



The Nation's Two Bodies



Debut - Venezuelan Counterpoint: Dictatorship and Democracy



The Eighteenth Brumaire of Dictatorship



Constructing the Nation; The Nation as a Construct



The Twenty-third of January of Democracy



Revival - The Petrostate and the Sowing of Oil



The Motors Wars: The Engines of Progress



Mirages of El Dorado: The Death of a Tractor Factory



The Devil's Excrement: Criminality and Sociality



Sequel - Black Gold: Money Fetishism and Modernity



Harvesting the Oil: The Storm of Progress



Beyond Occidentalism: A Subaltern Modernity


References


Index