Who Can Stop the Drums? : Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela /

Show other versions (1)

Looks at the influence of poor urban activists' social movements in Caracas, Venezuela, demonstrating the insufficencies of top-down, simplistic explanations of the country's political transitions and cultural politics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernandes, Sujatha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chávez Frías, Hugo.
Sociology, Urban.
Social movements.
Politics and government.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Sociologie urbaine > Venezuela.
Mouvements sociaux > Venezuela > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sociology, Urban > Venezuela.
Social movements > Venezuela > History > 20th century.
Venezuela.
Venezuela > Politique et gouvernement > 1999-
Venezuela > Politics and government > 1999-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Urban political histories
  • Poverty, violence, and the neoliberal turn
  • Personal lives
  • Culture, identity, and urban movements
  • Barrio-based media and communications
  • The takeover of the Alameda Theater
  • The new coalitional politics of social movements.

Similar Items