This volume maps the trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chávez’s four presidential terms (1999-2013) in twenty-first century Venezuela.
- Assesses the manifold impacts that the politics of chavismo had on the cultural sphere
- Maps key shifts and trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chávez’s four presidential terms, situating these in the regional context of “Pink Tide” politics
- An ambitious, interdisciplinary volume offering a range of perspectives, from broad overviews of cultural and media policy, to close readings of varied aesthetic manifestations
- Encompasses 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
- Examines how individual and collective imaginaries were negotiated and formed within, alongside or against the state with the advancement of the Bolivarian Revolution
Table of Contents
Charting Cultural Currents in Venezuela’s Pink Tide
Lisa Blackmore, Rebecca Jarman, Penélope Plaza
Preface
George Yúdice
1. Cultural Policies and the Bolivarian Revolution in the Socialist Venezuela of Hugo Chávez (1999-2013)
Gisela Kozak-Rovero
2. Hegemony in a Global Age: Mutations of the Communicational Spectacle in Venezuela
Manuel Silva-Ferrer
3. The Indian Within: Negotiating Indigenous Identity among Dominant Images of Indigeneity in Venezuela
Natalia García Bonet
4. Oil’s Colonial Residues: Geopolitics, Identity, and Resistance in Venezuela
Donald V. Kingsbury
5. Somatic Power in the Bolivarian Revolution: Biopolitics and Sacrifice in the Case of Franklin Brito
Paula Vásquez
6. Community, Heritage and the State: Rebuilding Armando Reverón’s El Castillete
Desiree Domec
7. El Helicoide and La Torre de David as Phantom Pavilions: Rethinking Spectacles of Progress in Venezuela
Lisa Blackmore
8. Queering the Barrios? The Politics of Poverty and Sexuality in Mariana Rondón’s Film, Pelo malo (2013)
Rebecca Jarman
9. Chronicles of Disenchantment: Rethinking ‘Venezuelanness’ in Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles’ Los Desterrados
María Teresa Vera Rojas
Bibliography
Index
