Culture as Renewable Oil: How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate

ISBN-13: 9780367582050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 150 str.

Penélope Plaza Azuaje

Opis

This book examines the Venezuelan petro-state from a cultural perspective. It unpacks the complex mediations that take place between a resource-intensive political regime and the work of culture and cultural producers in relation to policy and discourse. It demonstrates how oil is a cultural resource, in addition to a natural resource, implying

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Entanglements of Oil, Modernity, State and Culture in Venezuela

2. Oil in the Intersection between Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture as a Resource

3. Territory Effect, the New Geometry of Power and the Construction of a Petro-Socialist State Space

4. Bureaucratic Power, Performative Speech and Oil Policy: ‘Sow the Oil’ to ‘Harvest Culture’

5. Giant Oil Workers and the Expediency of Culture as Renewable Oil

Conclusion. The Untenable Utopia of Oil

O autorze

Penélope Plaza Azuaje is a Venezuelan architect, researcher and urban artivist. She researches the entanglements between oil, politics, culture and urban space, with a particular interest in urban artivism, and contemporary Venezuelan petro-politics. She holds a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management from City University of London and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently she is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Reading.