Communes and the Venezuelan State - The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis (Hardcover)

Since 2006, Venezuela has witnessed an explosion of different forms of popular power and participatory democracy. Over 47,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 3,000 communes have been constructed. In Communes and the Venezuelan State: The Struggle for Participatory Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Anderson Bean offers a critical analysis of these experiments in popular and workers' power and their potential for societal transformation within and beyond Venezuela. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Bean demonstrates how workers and peasants, through networks of popular power, exercise agency over their own development while facing challenges from the capitalist state. Most importantly, this book connects with the far-reaching implications that the communal movement in Venezuela has for building a society responsive more to the needs of ordinary people than to the desires of the elites.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Social Movements in the Americas
Release date:	March 2022
Authors:	Anderson Bean
Dimensions:	227 x 161 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-1-79364-084-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Promotions
LSN:	1-79364-084-X
Barcode:	9781793640840

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