A Kappeler
Biographic Data
| ID | 66940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Kappeler |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kappeler |
| SIGNATURE | KAPPELER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5826-711X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Imperialism
Tribute to a Criminological Ethnographer: Remembering Gary W. Potter
Towards neo-structural socialism? Social profit and dependency in Venezuelan state enterprise
Beyond Cold-War mythology and reifications: An appraisal of The Object of Labor
After the boom: Petro-politics and the fate of revolution in Venezuela
Matthew Wilde, A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. Mariya Ivancheva, The alternative university: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023
The Devil and Florentino: Specters of Petro-Populism in Venezuela
Scholarship on the political economy of natural resources in the Global South has often relied on the concept of the 'resource curse' to explain the negative features of extractive economies and their alleged tendency to promote rent capture at the expense of national sovereignty and development. Such theories link the behavior of social actors to an excess of 'unearned income,' with little reference to the concrete forms of political and cultura…
Tropical Leninism or The Eighteenth Brumaire of Nicolás Maduro
Breeding sovereignty: The production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela
This article explores the efforts of the Venezuelan government to improve food security and rural livelihoods with an experimental cattle-breeding project. It investigates the activities of a state enterprise in the western plains and how the selective-breeding practices of veterinary experts intersect with the logic of capital and biopolitics. Contributing to debates on the interaction between society and environment, the analysis suggests that …
Coffee and socialism in the Venezuelan Andes
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Barinas, this article investigates the impact of "twenty-first century socialist" policies on the Andean peasantry and the relationships established as part of Venezuela's ongoing agrarian reform. The analysis explores the historical and material-cultural factors surrounding coffee production in the Andes and the dynamics that have shaped a small group of growers. It examines the recent efforts …
From reactionary modernization to endogenous development: The revolution in hydroelectricity in Venezuela
Nature, Capital and Neighborhoods: “Dispossession without Accumulation”
The ongoing economic crisis, which originated in the USA and has since spread rapidly to capital markets worldwide, is massive, complex, and many times contradictory. One could say the same for responses to the crisis as governments, firms and multi-national institutions struggle to grasp the full magnitude of the event. This article interrogates the key commodities involved—land, labor and money—and the always-uneasy relations between spaces of …
Nature, Capital and Neighborhoods: “Dispossession without Accumulation”
The ongoing economic crisis, which originated in the USA and has since spread rapidly to capital markets worldwide, is massive, complex, and many times contradictory. One could say the same for responses to the crisis as governments, firms and multi-national institutions struggle to grasp the full magnitude of the event. This article interrogates the key commodities involved—land, labor and money—and the always-uneasy relations between spaces of …
From reactionary modernization to endogenous development: The revolution in hydroelectricity in Venezuela
Breeding sovereignty: The production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela
This article explores the efforts of the Venezuelan government to improve food security and rural livelihoods with an experimental cattle-breeding project. It investigates the activities of a state enterprise in the western plains and how the selective-breeding practices of veterinary experts intersect with the logic of capital and biopolitics. Contributing to debates on the interaction between society and environment, the analysis suggests that …
Nature, Capital and Neighborhoods: “Dispossession without Accumulation”
The ongoing economic crisis, which originated in the USA and has since spread rapidly to capital markets worldwide, is massive, complex, and many times contradictory. One could say the same for responses to the crisis as governments, firms and multi-national institutions struggle to grasp the full magnitude of the event. This article interrogates the key commodities involved—land, labor and money—and the always-uneasy relations between spaces of …
From reactionary modernization to endogenous development: The revolution in hydroelectricity in Venezuela
Coffee and socialism in the Venezuelan Andes
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the highlands of Barinas, this article investigates the impact of "twenty-first century socialist" policies on the Andean peasantry and the relationships established as part of Venezuela's ongoing agrarian reform. The analysis explores the historical and material-cultural factors surrounding coffee production in the Andes and the dynamics that have shaped a small group of growers. It examines the recent efforts …
Breeding sovereignty: The production of race, nature, and capital in Venezuela
This article explores the efforts of the Venezuelan government to improve food security and rural livelihoods with an experimental cattle-breeding project. It investigates the activities of a state enterprise in the western plains and how the selective-breeding practices of veterinary experts intersect with the logic of capital and biopolitics. Contributing to debates on the interaction between society and environment, the analysis suggests that …
Beyond Cold-War mythology and reifications: An appraisal of The Object of Labor
After the boom: Petro-politics and the fate of revolution in Venezuela
Matthew Wilde, A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. Mariya Ivancheva, The alternative university: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023
The Devil and Florentino: Specters of Petro-Populism in Venezuela
Scholarship on the political economy of natural resources in the Global South has often relied on the concept of the 'resource curse' to explain the negative features of extractive economies and their alleged tendency to promote rent capture at the expense of national sovereignty and development. Such theories link the behavior of social actors to an excess of 'unearned income,' with little reference to the concrete forms of political and cultura…
Tropical Leninism or The Eighteenth Brumaire of Nicolás Maduro
Tribute to a Criminological Ethnographer: Remembering Gary W. Potter
Towards neo-structural socialism? Social profit and dependency in Venezuelan state enterprise
Imperialism
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