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Author: Cristobal Valencia Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816531560 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 240
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Chavistas are the local leaders and activists in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, working to establish democracy through government-sponsored social missions, community self-governance, and popular collectives. We Are the State! tells the story of their grassroots activism. In perspectives gleaned from participant observation with barrio residents in workplaces, communal kitchens, city-wide forums, and grassroots meetings and assemblies, as well as family and recreational events, anthropologist Cristobal Valencia vividly recounts tensions between activists, local officials, and the wealthy opposition. The author offers an anthropological analysis of the state, social movements, and democracy as lived experiences of the poor, gendered, and racialized residents of two parishes in Caracas, Venezuela, and Afro-Venezuelan communities nearby. Ethnographic research reveals the shift in relationships of power and the evolving political practices among the Chavistas, the Chávez government, and the opposition. Examining the subjective experiences of barrio residents in everyday processes of state formation, this book provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, arguing that they are a broad-based social movement and driving force behind a revolution struggling to transfer state power to organized civil society. Through his intense engagement with the constantly changing social, political, and economic dynamics, Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela. He shows the unequal relationships between sectors of civil society, and he shows state formation as a process enmeshed in the struggles for social justice, demonstrating that the state is a sociopolitical entity that acts through civil society, rather than above it.
Author: Cristobal Valencia Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816531560 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Chavistas are the local leaders and activists in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, working to establish democracy through government-sponsored social missions, community self-governance, and popular collectives. We Are the State! tells the story of their grassroots activism. In perspectives gleaned from participant observation with barrio residents in workplaces, communal kitchens, city-wide forums, and grassroots meetings and assemblies, as well as family and recreational events, anthropologist Cristobal Valencia vividly recounts tensions between activists, local officials, and the wealthy opposition. The author offers an anthropological analysis of the state, social movements, and democracy as lived experiences of the poor, gendered, and racialized residents of two parishes in Caracas, Venezuela, and Afro-Venezuelan communities nearby. Ethnographic research reveals the shift in relationships of power and the evolving political practices among the Chavistas, the Chávez government, and the opposition. Examining the subjective experiences of barrio residents in everyday processes of state formation, this book provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, arguing that they are a broad-based social movement and driving force behind a revolution struggling to transfer state power to organized civil society. Through his intense engagement with the constantly changing social, political, and economic dynamics, Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela. He shows the unequal relationships between sectors of civil society, and he shows state formation as a process enmeshed in the struggles for social justice, demonstrating that the state is a sociopolitical entity that acts through civil society, rather than above it.
Author: Paul J. Vanderwood Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804730396 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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"Writing in a narrative style reminiscent of Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, author explains a series of 1890s uprisings in Tomochic, in the border state of Chihuahua, against the Porfirians' determination to dictate who would control the lan
Author: Aldo A. Lauria Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre ISBN: 0822972026 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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With unprecedented use of local and national sources, Lauria-Santiago presents a more complex portrait of El Salvador than has ever been ventured before. Using thoroughly researched regional case studies, Lauria-Santiago uncovers an astonishing variety of patterns in land use, labor, and the organization of production. He finds a diverse, commercially active peasantry that was deeply involved with local and national networks of power. An Agrarian Republic challenges the accepted vision of Central America in the nineteenth century and critiques the "liberal oligarchic hegemony" model of El Salvador. Detailed discussions of Ladino victories and successful Indian resistance give a perspective on Ladinization that does not rely on a polarized understanding of ethnic identity.
Author: Angela Ballone Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900433548X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 393
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In The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book discusses royal authority from a transatlantic perspective that encompasses both sides of the Iberian Atlantic. Considering the similarities and tensions that coexisted in the Iberian Atlantic, Ballone offers a thorough reassessment of current historiography on the Tumult proving that, despite the conflicts and arguments underlying the disturbances, there was never any intention to do away with the king’s authority in New Spain.
Author: Jos Machuca Publisher: Palibrio ISBN: 1463319657 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 161
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El querer Cuidar el Medio Ambiente, es el poder cambiar a mejores condiciones de Calidad de Vida. Las personas de este planeta, comprenden que la Buena Calidad es realizar una actividad, lo mejor posible, aún en actividades que se creen simples como, barrer, cocinar, lubricar una pieza de la máquina, etc. Porque yo creo que la Buena Calidad está en todo lo que hacemos. Por eso considero que la Calidad empieza por las personas o por uno mismo, realizando un trabajo correctamente en materiales, tiempo y con un método estandarizado y que lo que se requiere para trabajar con Calidad es, QUERER HACERLO, claro que también es necesario Saber cómo hacerlo y para eso se requiere de la capacitación y se necesita Poder trabajar o sea tener las habilidades físicas y mentales para realizar una tarea determinada. No creo en lo que dicen muchas personas de que "ya no hay valores", sino que considero que los valores allí están, existen bajo todos los cielos estrellados, porque son Universales, y que somos nosotros los seres humanos los que no damos la talla, y no me curo en salud, porque los valores no se aprenden, podemos obtener las máximas calificaciones en asignaturas de Ética, pero ser malos ejemplos para otras personas, en nuestras acciones morales y nos verán como deshonestos, viciosos, mentirosos, etc. Porque los Valores no se enseñan ni se aprenden, sino que se viven. Ese es el propósito de este libro, concientizar mediante la cultura el Cuidado del Medio Ambiente en base a la Ética y los Valores.
Author: Dag Heward-Mills Publisher: Parchment House ISBN: 1643305425 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 201
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Este estudio emocionante y profundo sobre el tema de la fe seguramente será de interés para cualquiera cuyo deseo sea agradar a Dios. Porque sin fe es imposible agradar a Dios, dice la Biblia. Esta es la razón por la cual este libro es una lectura obligada para todos los que desean agradar a Dios. Si la fe convirtió a Abraham en amigo de Dios, entonces la fe es muy importante en nuestro caminar con Dios. ¡Este libro es un tesoro! Descubre los secretos necesarios para caminar y vivir por fe. ¡Descubre los secretos de la fe que necesitas para lograr lo imposible en tu vida!
Author: Greg Grandin Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1844678504 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 177
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In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography—I, Rigoberta Menchú—transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At that point, she became the target of historians seeking to discredit her testimony and deny US complicity in the genocidal policies of the Guatemalan regime. Told here is the story of an unlettered woman who became the spokesperson for her people and clashed with the intellectual apologists of the world’s most powerful nation. What happened to her autobiography speaks volumes about power, perception and race on the world stage. This critical companion to Menchú’s work will disabuse many readers of the lies that have been told about this courageous individual.
Author: Cristobal Valencia
Author: Cristobal Valencia
Author: Paul J. Vanderwood
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Author: Aldo A. Lauria
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Author: Jos Machuca
Author: Dag Heward-Mills
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