Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez
Biographic Data
| ID | 159088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristóbal Valencia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramírez |
| SIGNATURE | RAMÍREZ C V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Active Marooning
Particular historic and contemporary formations of criollo society deny the existence of an Afro-Venezuelan community, thus hindering race-based struggles for democracy. However, Afro-Venezuelan activists are challenging Venezuelan race relations through a process of active marooning, a sustained politics of liberation. This interdisciplinary essay uses ethnographic evidence from fieldwork conducted in Venezuela from 2003 to the present to discus…
Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane
Lower-class politics is rudimentary and dense; it takes place in the neighborhood, in the community, in places of production. Rarely is it granted the "honor" of being called "politics" by the canonic texts; instead, it is referred to as daily life, conversation, gossip, rumor or local conflict. [Gilly 2005:39]
Hemos Derrotado El Diablo! Chávez Supporters, Anti-Neoliberalism, and Twenty-First-Century Socialism
This article argues that the Venezuelan refusal of Washington's neoliberal economic development project is best analyzed in the context of the anti-imperialist Bolivarian Revolution and anti-neoliberal development of twenty-first-century socialism. These projects are more than just critiques of capitalism; they are real policies and lived experiences in the transformation of local, national, and hemispheric power relationships. Drawing on ethnogr…
Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The increasingly decisive victories of Chaivez presidency call into question easy characterizations of his supporters as the poor or and attendant notions of spontaneous, uninformed political actors. Since 1998, voters have elected Hugo Chavez to presidency three times with increasing margins each time, and on August 15, 2004, voters returned to polls to decide whether to remove him from office. Fifty-nine percent of voters affirmed president's m…
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The increasingly decisive victories of Chaivez presidency call into question easy characterizations of his supporters as the poor or and attendant notions of spontaneous, uninformed political actors. Since 1998, voters have elected Hugo Chavez to presidency three times with increasing margins each time, and on August 15, 2004, voters returned to polls to decide whether to remove him from office. Fifty-nine percent of voters affirmed president's m…
Active Marooning
Particular historic and contemporary formations of criollo society deny the existence of an Afro-Venezuelan community, thus hindering race-based struggles for democracy. However, Afro-Venezuelan activists are challenging Venezuelan race relations through a process of active marooning, a sustained politics of liberation. This interdisciplinary essay uses ethnographic evidence from fieldwork conducted in Venezuela from 2003 to the present to discus…
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The increasingly decisive victories of Chaivez presidency call into question easy characterizations of his supporters as the poor or and attendant notions of spontaneous, uninformed political actors. Since 1998, voters have elected Hugo Chavez to presidency three times with increasing margins each time, and on August 15, 2004, voters returned to polls to decide whether to remove him from office. Fifty-nine percent of voters affirmed president's m…
Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane
Venezuela in the Eye of the Hurricane
Lower-class politics is rudimentary and dense; it takes place in the neighborhood, in the community, in places of production. Rarely is it granted the "honor" of being called "politics" by the canonic texts; instead, it is referred to as daily life, conversation, gossip, rumor or local conflict. [Gilly 2005:39]
Hemos Derrotado El Diablo! Chávez Supporters, Anti-Neoliberalism, and Twenty-First-Century Socialism
This article argues that the Venezuelan refusal of Washington's neoliberal economic development project is best analyzed in the context of the anti-imperialist Bolivarian Revolution and anti-neoliberal development of twenty-first-century socialism. These projects are more than just critiques of capitalism; they are real policies and lived experiences in the transformation of local, national, and hemispheric power relationships. Drawing on ethnogr…
Active Marooning
Particular historic and contemporary formations of criollo society deny the existence of an Afro-Venezuelan community, thus hindering race-based struggles for democracy. However, Afro-Venezuelan activists are challenging Venezuelan race relations through a process of active marooning, a sustained politics of liberation. This interdisciplinary essay uses ethnographic evidence from fieldwork conducted in Venezuela from 2003 to the present to discus…
Political science (5 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · History (3 works) · Latin American socio-political dynamics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Cultural and political discourse analysis (2 works)