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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Penélope Plaza Azuaje, Penelope (University of Reading Plaza Azuaje
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138573772
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57377-2
• Pagine: 150
• Serie: Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics; Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; 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