Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in ChÃ¡vez's Venezuela

Name: Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in ChÃ¡vez's Venezuela
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ISBN: 9780822346777

ISBN-10: 082234677X

ISBN-13: 9780822346777

Edition: 2010

Authors: Sujatha Fernandes

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In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chaacute;vez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis of the early 1980s and the neoliberal reforms that followed, to the Chaacute;vez period. She weaves barrio residents' life stories into her account of movements for social and economic justice.Who Can Stop the Drums?demonstrates that the transformations underway in Venezuela are shaped by…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Individual and Collective Histories



Urban Political Histories



Poverty, Violence, and the Neoliberal Turn



personal Lives



Everday Life and Politic



Culture, Identity, and Urban Movements



Barrio-Based Media and Communications



The Takeover of the Alameda Theater



State-Socity Mediation



The New Coalitional Politics of Social Movements


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index