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Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State

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The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Grassroots & Corruption.

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The ghost of the plantation: race, class, gender and popular culture in Venezuela

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how black activists in Osma and Todasana do this by showing how they problematise their identities using autochthonous resources in the local popular culture.
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Resource Extraction and Conflict in Latin America

TL;DR: Aunque se enreden los caminos del petróleo, aunque las napas cambien su sitio silencioso y muevan su soberanía entre los vientres de la tierra, cuando sacude el surtidor su ramaje de parafina, antes llegó la Standard Oil con sus letrados and sus botas, con sus cheques and sus fusiles, con his gobiernos and sus presos, con hermenos y sus
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Everyday Crafting of the Bolivarian State Lower-level State Officials and Grassroots Activism in Venezuela

TL;DR: Venezuela's communal councils are legally sanctioned organs for popular participation implemented mostly in poor communities since 2006 as discussed by the authors and serve as mediators between state policies and community politics, and study of their roles and perspectives provides important insights into the complexities of implementing policies of popular participation and transforming state practices in the context of radical social change.
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Hunger in the land of plenty: The complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela

TL;DR: The complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is as much about poverty and scarcity as it is about wealth and abundance benefiting only a very few as mentioned in this paper, and the anthropology of abundance allows us to grasp these underlying socioeconomic dynamics that turn crisis management into crisis maintenance.

Venezuelan Oil and Political Instability : A Case Study of Venezuela and its Oil Dependency

TL;DR: The natural resource curse is a widely debated phenomenon usually proposing a connection between large extractive resource wealth and substandard economic performance as mentioned in this paper, and it has been studied extensively in the literature.