Barrio Rising (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | University of California Press (Velasco, Alejandro, Prof.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America´s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela´s largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. In the mid-1950s, a military government bent on modernizing Venezuela razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city´s working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands...
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