Alejandro Velasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 217890 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro Velasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Velasco |
| SIGNATURE | VELASCO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2338-7979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rhyme and Repetition in Venezuela’s Upheavals
Once again, Nicolás Maduro claimed a dubious victory in a presidential election and violently suppressed protests—but in 2024, many poor and working-class voters, long loyal to his regime, turned against him
Des grupos de trabajo aux colectivos
Le terme colectivo est devenu l'une des expressions les plus répandues et controversées de l'ère Chávez au Venezuela. Si ce terme désigne en principe un sous-ensemble spécifique de partisans du gouvernement chaviste - à savoir, des groupes paraétatiques qui recourent à la violence armée pour le maintenir au pouvoir -, les colectivos demeurent un phénomène encore peu étudié, tant sur les plans conceptuel qu'empirique : les uns les décrivent comme …
Chavismo Revisited
The Many Faces of Chavismo
On the Urgency of a Cunning Politics
Early in his extraordinary new book, John French recounts how in 1960 a then-teenaged Luiz Inácio da Silva gained admission to the prestigious training program that would set him on an unlikely path to become president of Brazil. It began when his mother, Dona Lindu, determined for her youngest child to become a torneiro mecânico—a metalworker, a member of the emerging labor elite. Like most northeastern migrants who made their way to the rapidly…
The Pyrrhic Victories of Venezuela's President
Despite a collapsing economy, Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian moves to neutralize his opponents seemed to be succeeding–until year-end protests showed the working class was finally fed up
The Latin East
Breaking and Keeping with the Past in Venezuela
Sifting through the rubble of its present collapse, it is difficult to recall a time when Venezuela stood for many in the Americas as a progressive challenge to a neoliberal order that had long hel
BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere
In the summer of 2014, as protests raged following the deaths of innocent Black men by police in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore, the righteous indignation of thousands in the streets came togeth
Prisons, Punishment, and Policing
The numbers are staggering: of the world's fifty deadliest cities, almost all are in Latin America, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. In Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil, murder rates con
Wall Off Trump
Months after his inauguration, Donald Trump’s election continues to reverberate worldwide, with perhaps special intensity in Latin America and the Latinx U.S. From his early broadsides against Mexi
I Speak of the City
Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms
Right Turn
Free Trade 2.0
Locals from the community of Xesana line up on October 26, 2014, to vote in a community consultation on extractive and energy industries in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala. JAMES RODRIGUEZ.The ye
Nacla Returns to Print
Barrio Rising
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…
Activistas hablan de religión y movimientos sociales, Lima 2010
Este artículo transcribe y considera la discusión suscitada en Lima, Perú entre activistas y académicos de las Américas tras nuestra presentación de trabajos preliminares sobre religión y movimientos sociales progresistas. Al concluir las ponencias, planteamos al público varias preguntas para pensar sus experiencias con la religión en el marco de su activismo. El artículo intenta capturar el interés y la diversidad de intervenciones al invertir l…
Venezuela Before and After the Protests
Looking for the Left Turn
Beyond binaries and generalizations, vilification and glorification, where do we find Latin America’s “left turn” today
Communes in Progress
“We Are Still Rebels”
A Poverty of Rights
Book Review| May 01 2011 A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brodwyn Fischer Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008 vii + 464 pp., $65.00 (cloth) Alejandro Velasco Alejandro Velasco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1159129 …
A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote
Scholarship on Venezuela has long cast the first decades after the founding of democracy in 1958 as a period of popular passivity, when citizen demands were effectively channeled through elections and state institutions before these broke down in the late 1980s. This article complicates such a reading and considers the role that street protest played in expanding the meaning of democracy among urban popular sectors to include a more dynamic inter…
Des grupos de trabajo aux colectivos
Le terme colectivo est devenu l'une des expressions les plus répandues et controversées de l'ère Chávez au Venezuela. Si ce terme désigne en principe un sous-ensemble spécifique de partisans du gouvernement chaviste - à savoir, des groupes paraétatiques qui recourent à la violence armée pour le maintenir au pouvoir -, les colectivos demeurent un phénomène encore peu étudié, tant sur les plans conceptuel qu'empirique : les uns les décrivent comme …
A Poverty of Rights
Book Review| May 01 2011 A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brodwyn Fischer Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008 vii + 464 pp., $65.00 (cloth) Alejandro Velasco Alejandro Velasco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1159129 …
A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote
Scholarship on Venezuela has long cast the first decades after the founding of democracy in 1958 as a period of popular passivity, when citizen demands were effectively channeled through elections and state institutions before these broke down in the late 1980s. This article complicates such a reading and considers the role that street protest played in expanding the meaning of democracy among urban popular sectors to include a more dynamic inter…
“We Are Still Rebels”
A Poverty of Rights
Book Review| May 01 2011 A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro Brodwyn Fischer Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008 vii + 464 pp., $65.00 (cloth) Alejandro Velasco Alejandro Velasco Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2011) 8 (2): 152–154. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-1159129 …
Communes in Progress
Activistas hablan de religión y movimientos sociales, Lima 2010
Este artículo transcribe y considera la discusión suscitada en Lima, Perú entre activistas y académicos de las Américas tras nuestra presentación de trabajos preliminares sobre religión y movimientos sociales progresistas. Al concluir las ponencias, planteamos al público varias preguntas para pensar sus experiencias con la religión en el marco de su activismo. El artículo intenta capturar el interés y la diversidad de intervenciones al invertir l…
Venezuela Before and After the Protests
Looking for the Left Turn
Beyond binaries and generalizations, vilification and glorification, where do we find Latin America’s “left turn” today
Barrio Rising
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…
Drugs, Wars, and Capitalisms
Right Turn
Free Trade 2.0
Locals from the community of Xesana line up on October 26, 2014, to vote in a community consultation on extractive and energy industries in Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala. JAMES RODRIGUEZ.The ye
Nacla Returns to Print
BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere
In the summer of 2014, as protests raged following the deaths of innocent Black men by police in Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore, the righteous indignation of thousands in the streets came togeth
Prisons, Punishment, and Policing
The numbers are staggering: of the world's fifty deadliest cities, almost all are in Latin America, claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. In Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil, murder rates con
Wall Off Trump
Months after his inauguration, Donald Trump’s election continues to reverberate worldwide, with perhaps special intensity in Latin America and the Latinx U.S. From his early broadsides against Mexi
I Speak of the City
The Pyrrhic Victories of Venezuela's President
Despite a collapsing economy, Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian moves to neutralize his opponents seemed to be succeeding–until year-end protests showed the working class was finally fed up
The Latin East
Breaking and Keeping with the Past in Venezuela
Sifting through the rubble of its present collapse, it is difficult to recall a time when Venezuela stood for many in the Americas as a progressive challenge to a neoliberal order that had long hel
On the Urgency of a Cunning Politics
Early in his extraordinary new book, John French recounts how in 1960 a then-teenaged Luiz Inácio da Silva gained admission to the prestigious training program that would set him on an unlikely path to become president of Brazil. It began when his mother, Dona Lindu, determined for her youngest child to become a torneiro mecânico—a metalworker, a member of the emerging labor elite. Like most northeastern migrants who made their way to the rapidly…
Chavismo Revisited
The Many Faces of Chavismo
Des grupos de trabajo aux colectivos
Le terme colectivo est devenu l'une des expressions les plus répandues et controversées de l'ère Chávez au Venezuela. Si ce terme désigne en principe un sous-ensemble spécifique de partisans du gouvernement chaviste - à savoir, des groupes paraétatiques qui recourent à la violence armée pour le maintenir au pouvoir -, les colectivos demeurent un phénomène encore peu étudié, tant sur les plans conceptuel qu'empirique : les uns les décrivent comme …
Rhyme and Repetition in Venezuela’s Upheavals
Once again, Nicolás Maduro claimed a dubious victory in a presidential election and violently suppressed protests—but in 2024, many poor and working-class voters, long loyal to his regime, turned against him
Political science (20 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (6 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works) · Economic history (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economics (3 works)