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1 online resource (159 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics Ser |
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Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The making of a modern oil nation; Interfaces of State Space, Bureaucratic Power and Culture as a Resource; Chapter outline; References; 1 Entanglements of oil, modernity, state and culture in Venezuela; Oil and the illusion of modernity; Fleeting mirages of oil wealth: from Pérez's Great Venezuela to Chávez's Petro-Socialism; Conclusion; Notes; References; 2 Oil in the intersection between Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture as a Resource; State Space as territory |
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Bureaucratic PowerCulture as a Resource in and within the Petrostate; Conclusion; References; 3 Territory effect, the New Geometry of Power and the construction of a Petro-Socialist State Space; The New Geometry of Power and the construction of the Petro-Socialist State Space; PDVSA's Oil Social District as a parallel Petro-Socialist State Space; Conclusion; References; 4 Bureaucratic Power, performative speech and oil policy: 'sow the oil' to 'harvest culture'; The performative power of discourse; Hugo Chávez's discursive construction of Petro-Socialism |
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Rafael Ramírez and the new PDVSA as agents of Petro-SocialismPDVSA La Estancia, an instrument of the Sowing Oil Plan that 'harvests culture'; Conclusion; References; 5 Giant oil workers and the expediency of Culture as Renewable Oil; The expediency of culture as a mineral resource; Profile of the campaign 'we transform oil into a renewable resource for you'; Visual semiotics of oil: giant oil workers and the myth of Culture as Renewable Oil; Giant oil workers and the myth of Culture as Renewable Oil; Conclusion; References; Conclusion: the untenable utopia of oil; Oil as cultural culprit |
| Summary |
This book unpacks the links between oil energy, state power, urban space and culture, by looking at the Petro-Socialist Venezuelan oil state. It challenges the disciplinary compartmentalisation of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the Petrostate, Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture become indivisible. To this end, it examines how oil is a cultural resource, in addition to a natural resource, implying therefore that struggles over culture implicate oil, and struggles over oil implicate culture. This book develops a story about Venezuela as an oil state and the way it deploys its policies to instrumentalise culture and urban space by examining the way Petro-Socialism manifests in space, how it is imagined in speeches and how it is discursively constructed in adverts. The discussion reveals how a particular culture is privileged by the Venezuela state-owned oil company and its social and cultural branch. The book explores to what effect the state-owned oil company constructs a parallel notion of culture that becomes inextricable from land, akin to a mineral deposit, and tightly controlled by the Petrostate. The book will appeal to researchers who are interested in Resource Management, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies and Political Geography |
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Politics and culture -- Venezuela -- 21st century
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Venezuela -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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cultural studies.
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culture and oil.
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energy.
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extractive industries.
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latin american energy.
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oil.
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oil industry.
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Petrosocialist Venezuela.
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Petrostate.
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penelope plaza.
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renewable energy.
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Venezuela.
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Venezuelan energy.
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Petroleum industry and trade
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Politics and culture
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Venezuela
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351330503 |
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1351330500 |
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