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Against a backdrop of rapid urbanization and the growth of a global economy powered by carbon, Rebecca Jarman argues that in Venezuela, urban poverty has become one of the most important resources in national culture and statecraft. Attracting the attentions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from within and beyond the limits of Caracas, the barrios are fetishized in the cultural domain as sites of rampant sex, crime, revolution, disease, and violence. The appeal of the urban poor in entertainment is replicated in the policies of autocratic leaders who, operating within an...

This volume maps the trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chavez's four presidential terms (1999-2013) in twenty-first century Venezuela. Assesses the manifold impacts that the politics of chavismo had on the cultural sphere Maps key shifts and trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chavez's four presidential terms, situating these in the regional context of "Pink Tide" politics An ambitious, interdisciplinary volume offering a range of perspectives, from broad overviews of cultural and media policy, to close...