Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iseli...

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Autor principal: Iselin Åsedotter Strønen
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