Culture As Renewable Oil - How Territory, Bureaucratic Power Culture Coalesce in Venezuelan

This book examines the Venezuelan petro-state from a cultural perspective. It unpacks the complex mediations that take place between a resource-intensive political regime and the work of culture and cultural producers in relation to policy and discourse. It demonstrates how oil is a cultural resource, in addition to a natural resource, implying

List of contents

Introduction
1. Entanglements of Oil, Modernity, State and Culture in Venezuela
2. Oil in the Intersection between Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture as a Resource
3. Territory Effect, the New Geometry of Power and the Construction of a Petro-Socialist State Space
4. Bureaucratic Power, Performative Speech and Oil Policy: ‘Sow the Oil’ to ‘Harvest Culture’
5. Giant Oil Workers and the Expediency of Culture as Renewable Oil
Conclusion. The Untenable Utopia of Oil

About the author

Penélope Plaza Azuaje is a Venezuelan architect, researcher and urban artivist. She researches the entanglements between oil, politics, culture and urban space, with a particular interest in urban artivism, and contemporary Venezuelan petro-politics. She holds a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management from City University of London and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently she is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Reading.

Summary

This book examines the Venezuelan petro-state from a cultural perspective. It unpacks the complex mediations that take place between a resource-intensive political regime and the work of culture and cultural producers in relation to policy and discourse. It demonstrates how oil is a cultural resource, in addition to a natural resource, implying

Product details

• Authors: Penélope Plaza Azuaje, Penelope (University of Reading Plaza Azuaje
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138573772
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57377-2
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics; Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Venezuela, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Anthropology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Development and environmental geography