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This study takes a deep dive into the political polarisation in Venezuela, a country with almost two decades of conflict between Chavismo and the Opposition disputing the meaning of democracy.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: A Revisited Concept of Political Polarisation
Chapter 2. Polarised Politics: Antagonism, Logic and Subjectivity
Part II: Analysing Polarised Politics in Venezuela
Chapter 3. Venezuelan Case: Oil, Inequalities and Clash between two Models of Democracy
Chapter 4. Logics of Hegemony: Between "Us and Them"
Chapter 5. Subjectivity and Polarisation: From Subjection to Subjectivation
Chapter 6. Normalising Polarisation: "O Eres Chicha o Limonada"
Conclusion: Transcending the Logic of "Us and Them"
Index
References
About the author
Ybiskay Gonzalez Torres is a sociologist from Venezuela, with an MA in Participation and Politics (University of Bradford) and a PhD in Politics (University of Newcastle, Australia). Ms Gonzalez in the co-edited book Participation and Democracy in the twenty-first century, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. The second project was coordinated by Dr Barry Cannon, with whom she has published conference paper. Similarly, Dr Cannon mentions Ms Gonzalez in his most recent book The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State, published by Routledge in 2016. Ybiskay is an academic in the discipline of Politics and International Relations in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is affiliated to Latin American Studies Association and reviewer in Latin American Research Review and Latin American Perspective.
Summary
This study takes a deep dive into the political polarisation in Venezuela, a country with almost two decades of conflict between Chavismo and the Opposition disputing the meaning of democracy.
