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

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

Fernandes, Sujatha

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySouth American History

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ISBN10: 0822346656
ISBN13: 9780822346654
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 2 2010
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 Chávez 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 Chávez 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 under way in Venezuela are shaped by negotiations between the Chávez government and social movements with their own forms of historical memory, local organization, and consciousness.

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