The Politics of Culture in the Chávez Era

This volume maps the trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chávez'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 Chávez'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 readings of varied aesthetic manifestations * Encompasses conventional cultural products, such as recent film and literature, as well as engagements with cultural imaginaries that play out in political protest, urban culture, and grassroots heritage projects * Examines how individual and collective imaginaries were negotiated and formed within, alongside or against the state with the advancement of the Bolivarian Revolution