Etnografía política en Venezuela: virajes, quiebres y continuidades en tiempos de mutación

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Political ethnography of Venezuela has been uniquely attuned to how the Bolivarian Revolution has realigned social relations in Venezuela, disrupting who and what might be considered “outside” and “inside” the state. The ethnographically rich papers on this panel explore the uncertainty, the openings, and retrenchment of traditional power hierarchies that have emerged as part of this process of change. How does the collapse of the rentier model and current crisis change the terrain for social movement organizing, party politics, and statecraft? These papers use political ethnography to explore the effects of the recent changes on actors, spaces and political processes.

Sub Track

• Culture, Power and Political Subjectivities

Session Organizer

• Naomi A Schiller, Brooklyn College, CUNY

Individual Presentations

• Clientes bajo sospecha Relaciones estado/sociedad en un sector popular de la ciudad de Caracas - Enrique M Rey, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos Rómulo Gallegos

• “Affective states” and “state effects”: gendering the urban revolution in Caracas, Venezuela - Andreina Isabel I Torres Angarita, City University of New York Graduate Center

• Apuestas, quiebres y dilemas de un ethos militante. Etnografía de jóvenes activistas en barrios de Caracas - Chelina Sepúlveda, UCV; Doris Carolina Ponce Lozada

• Seeing Like a State? Taking Stock of Community Media and the Bolivarian Revolution - Naomi A Schiller, Brooklyn College, CUNY

• La profesionalización del militantismo: un proceso de burocratización de las relaciones sociales? - Yoletty Bracho

Discussant

• Miguel R Tinker Salas, Pomona College