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Author: Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.317kg
ISBN: 9781138194038
ISBN 10: 1138194034
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 December 2015
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Among the many books on Venezuela, this one is unique and to be praised for offering a clear-eyed, balanced assessment of the impact of Hugo Chavez Frias on hemispheric and global relations. It wrestles with thorny issues about the limits and possibilities of revolution in the current geopolitical context, benefitting from fine research on Latin America being undertaken in Australasia. -Daniel Hellinger, Webster University This volume represents a unique effort to explore the tie-in between struggles within Venezuela in favor of justice and democratic consolidation, on the one hand, and international relations, on the other. Editor Luis Angosto-Ferrandez uses a post-structuralist approach to relate symbols and discourse to the initiatives promoting Latin American unity undertaken by President Hugo Chavez. In addition to examining government actions to create a Latin American bloc and the unity of third world countries, several chapters in the book focus on the Venezuelan Indigenous movement and its transnational networks. All eight of the book's chapters provide a wealth of useful information that illuminates Venezuelan developments as well as continental and North-South relations. The reader may or may not be in agreement with all the authors' arguments and viewpoints, but will undoubtedly find his/her grasp of the complex transformations currently underway in Venezuela and Latin America significantly enhanced. -Steve Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century This is an excellent and long-overdue examination of the international impact of the Bolivarian revolution. It takes seriously what many academics and the great majority of media commentators have tended to dismiss as irrelevant or insignificant - D.L. Raby, University of Liverpool Among the many books on Venezuela, this one is unique and to be praised for offering a clear-eyed, balanced assessment of the impact of Hugo Chavez Frias on hemispheric and global relations. It wrestles with thorny issues about the limits and possibilities of revolution in the current geopolitical context, benefitting from fine research on Latin America being undertaken in Australasia. -Daniel Hellinger, Webster University This volume represents a unique effort to explore the tie-in between struggles within Venezuela in favor of justice and democratic consolidation, on the one hand, and international relations, on the other. Editor Luis Angosto-Ferrandez uses a post-structuralist approach to relate symbols and discourse to the initiatives promoting Latin American unity undertaken by President Hugo Chavez. In addition to examining government actions to create a Latin American bloc and the unity of third world countries, several chapters in the book focus on the Venezuelan Indigenous movement and its transnational networks. All eight of the book's chapters provide a wealth of useful information that illuminates Venezuelan developments as well as continental and North-South relations. The reader may or may not be in agreement with all the authors' arguments and viewpoints, but will undoubtedly find his/her grasp of the complex transformations currently underway in Venezuela and Latin America significantly enhanced. -Steve Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century This is an excellent and long-overdue examination of the international impact of the Bolivarian revolution. It takes seriously what many academics and the great majority of media commentators have tended to dismiss as irrelevant or insignificant - D.L. Raby, University of Liverpool This outstanding volume is a critical contribution to the ongoing struggle about how to make sense of the transformations that have taken place over the last two decades in Latin America and the Caribbean. - Thomas Muhr, editor of Counter-Globalisation and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Among the many books on Venezuela, this one is unique and to be praised for offering a clear-eyed, balanced assessment of the impact of Hugo Chavez Frias on hemispheric and global relations. It wrestles with thorny issues about the limits and possibilities of revolution in the current geopolitical context, benefitting from fine research on Latin America being undertaken in Australasia. -Daniel Hellinger, Webster University This volume represents a unique effort to explore the tie-in between struggles within Venezuela in favor of justice and democratic consolidation, on the one hand, and international relations, on the other. Editor Luis Angosto-Ferrandez uses a post-structuralist approach to relate symbols and discourse to the initiatives promoting Latin American unity undertaken by President Hugo Chavez. In addition to examining government actions to create a Latin American bloc and the unity of third world countries, several chapters in the book focus on the Venezuelan Indigenous movement and its transnational networks. All eight of the book's chapters provide a wealth of useful information that illuminates Venezuelan developments as well as continental and North-South relations. The reader may or may not be in agreement with all the authors' arguments and viewpoints, but will undoubtedly find his/her grasp of the complex transformations currently underway in Venezuela and Latin America significantly enhanced. -Steve Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century This is an excellent and long-overdue examination of the international impact of the Bolivarian revolution. It takes seriously what many academics and the great majority of media commentators have tended to dismiss as irrelevant or insignificant - D.L. Raby, University of Liverpool This outstanding volume is a critical contribution to the ongoing struggle about how to make sense of the transformations that have taken place over the last two decades in Latin America and the Caribbean. - Thomas Muhr, editor of Counter-Globalisation and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Among the many books on Venezuela, this one is unique and to be praised for offering a clear-eyed, balanced assessment of the impact of Hugo Chavez Frias on hemispheric and global relations. It wrestles with thorny issues about the limits and possibilities of revolution in the current geopolitical context, benefitting from fine research on Latin America being undertaken in Australasia. -Daniel Hellinger, Webster University This volume represents a unique effort to explore the tie-in between struggles within Venezuela in favor of justice and democratic consolidation, on the one hand, and international relations, on the other. Editor Luis Angosto-Ferrandez uses a post-structuralist approach to relate symbols and discourse to the initiatives promoting Latin American unity undertaken by President Hugo Chavez. In addition to examining government actions to create a Latin American bloc and the unity of third world countries, several chapters in the book focus on the Venezuelan Indigenous movement and its transnational networks. All eight of the book's chapters provide a wealth of useful information that illuminates Venezuelan developments as well as continental and North-South relations. The reader may or may not be in agreement with all the authors' arguments and viewpoints, but will undoubtedly find his/her grasp of the complex transformations currently underway in Venezuela and Latin America significantly enhanced. -Steve Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century This is an excellent and long-overdue examination of the international impact of the Bolivarian revolution. It takes seriously what many academics and the great majority of media commentators have tended to dismiss as irrelevant or insignificant - D.L. Raby, University of Liverpool This outstanding volume is a critical contribution to the ongoing struggle about how to make sense of the transformations that have taken place over the last two decades in Latin America and the Caribbean. - Thomas Muhr, editor of Counter-Globalisation and Socialism in the 21st Century: The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Among the many books on Venezuela, this one is unique and to be praised for offering a clear-eyed, balanced assessment of the impact of Hugo Chavez Frias on hemispheric and global relations. It wrestles with thorny issues about the limits and possibilities of revolution in the current geopolitical context, benefitting from fine research on Latin America being undertaken in Australasia. -Daniel Hellinger, Webster University This volume represents a unique effort to explore the tie-in between struggles within Venezuela in favor of justice and democratic consolidation, on the one hand, and international relations, on the other. Editor Luis Angosto-Ferrandez uses a post-structuralist approach to relate symbols and discourse to the initiatives promoting Latin American unity undertaken by President Hugo Chavez. In addition to examining government actions to create a Latin American bloc and the unity of third world countries, several chapters in the book focus on the Venezuelan Indigenous movement and its transnational networks. All eight of the book's chapters provide a wealth of useful information that illuminates Venezuelan developments as well as continental and North-South relations. The reader may or may not be in agreement with all the authors' arguments and viewpoints, but will undoubtedly find his/her grasp of the complex transformations currently underway in Venezuela and Latin America significantly enhanced. -Steve Ellner, editor of Latin America's Radical Left: Challenges and Complexities of Political Power in the Twenty-First Century
Author Information
Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández has a multidisciplinary background in anthropology and political science and currently lectures in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Sydney. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Latin America and Spain, and has lived, worked, and researched in Venezuela for nearly a decade. Among his recent publications is Everlasting Countdowns: Race, Ethnicity and National Censuses in Latin American States (coedited with Sabine Kradolfer).
