Maher We Created Chávez

A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7893-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maher, Geo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Map of Venezuela xii

Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1

1. A Guerrilla History 22

2. Reconnecting with the Masses 45

3. Birth of the "Tupamaros" 67

First Interlude. The Caracazo: History Splits in Two 88

4. Sergio's Blood: Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105

5. Manuelita's Boots: Women between Two Movements 126

6. JoséLeonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje 146

Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 166

7. Venezuelan Workers: Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 180

8. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 200

9. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 218

Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 234

Notes 257

Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

George Ciccariello-Maher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University.