Communes and the Venezuelan State - The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis

In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean examines the communal movement in Venezuela, its origins, contradictory relationship to the state, and the challenges it faces amid Venezuela's largest economic and political crisis.

List of contents

Chapter One: Communes in Theory and Practice
Chapter Two: Theorizing Participatory Democracy, Popular Power, and Counter-Hegemonic Globalization from Below
Chapter Three: Popular Power, Participatory Democracy and the Communes from Punto Fijismo to the Present
Chapter Four: Networks of Popular Power: Communes as Globalization from Below
Chapter Five: Crisis, the Decline of the Pink Tide, and the Future of the Communes

About the author

Anderson Bean is teaching assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Summary

In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean examines the communal movement in Venezuela, its origins, contradictory relationship to the state, and the challenges it faces amid Venezuela's largest economic and political crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Anderson Bean
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793640840
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-084-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Social Movements in the Americas
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Venezuela, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Society & culture: general, Political structures: democracy, Society and culture: general, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies