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A Blessing and a Curse

- Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela
Af: Matt Wilde Engelsk Paperback

A Blessing and a Curse

- Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela
Af: Matt Wilde Engelsk Paperback
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A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in an urban barrio over the course of a decade, Matt Wilde argues that everyday life in this period was intimately shaped by a critical contradiction: that in their efforts to capture a larger portion of oil money and distribute it more widely among the population, the governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro pursued policies that ultimately entrenched Venezuela in the very position of dependency they sought to overcome. Offering a new synthesis between anthropological work on energy, politics, and morality, the book explores how the use of oil money to fund the revolution's social programs and political reforms produced profound cultural anxieties about the contaminating effects of petroleum revenues in everyday settings. Tracing how these anxieties rippled out into community life, family networks, and local politics, Wilde shows how questions about how to live a good life came to be intimately shaped by Venezuela's contradictory relationship with oil. In doing so, he brings a vital perspective to contemporary debates about energy transitions by proposing a new way of thinking about the political and moral economies of natural resources in postcolonial settings.
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A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in an urban barrio over the course of a decade, Matt Wilde argues that everyday life in this period was intimately shaped by a critical contradiction: that in their efforts to capture a larger portion of oil money and distribute it more widely among the population, the governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro pursued policies that ultimately entrenched Venezuela in the very position of dependency they sought to overcome. Offering a new synthesis between anthropological work on energy, politics, and morality, the book explores how the use of oil money to fund the revolution's social programs and political reforms produced profound cultural anxieties about the contaminating effects of petroleum revenues in everyday settings. Tracing how these anxieties rippled out into community life, family networks, and local politics, Wilde shows how questions about how to live a good life came to be intimately shaped by Venezuela's contradictory relationship with oil. In doing so, he brings a vital perspective to contemporary debates about energy transitions by proposing a new way of thinking about the political and moral economies of natural resources in postcolonial settings.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 236
ISBN-13: 9781503637078
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1503637077
Kategori: Mexico & Central America
Udg. Dato: 10 okt 2023
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 151mm
Forlag: Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato: 10 okt 2023
Forfatter(e): Matt Wilde
Forfatter(e) Matt Wilde

Kategori Mexico & Central America

ISBN-13 9781503637078

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 236

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 151mm

Udg. Dato 10 okt 2023

Oplagsdato 10 okt 2023

Forlag Stanford University Press