@book {115986,
	title = {The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Ch{\'a}vez},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {344},
	publisher = {Harvard University Press},
	organization = {Harvard University Press},
	edition = {PAPERBACK},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {Is Venezuela{\textquoteright}s Bolivarian revolution under Hugo Ch{\'a}vez truly revolutionary? Most books and articles tend to view the Ch{\'a}vez government in an either-or fashion. Some see the president as the shining knight of twenty-first-century socialism, while others see him as an avenging Stalinist strongman. Despite passion on both sides, the Ch{\'a}vez government does not fall easily into a seamless fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these essays make clear.

A range of distinguished authors consider the nature of social change in contemporary Venezuela and explore a number of themes that help elucidate the sources of the nation{\textquoteright}s political polarization. The chapters range from Fernando Coronil{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}Bolivarian Revolution,{\textquotedblright} which examines the relationship between the state{\textquoteright}s social body (its population) and its natural body (its oil reserves), to an insightful look at women{\textquoteright}s rights by Cathy A. Rakowski and Gioconda Espina. This volume shows that, while the future of the national process is unclear, the principles elaborated by the Ch{\'a}vez government are helping articulate a new Latin American left.

Purchase book here, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31234},
	author = {Jonathan Eastwood},
	editor = {Thomas Ponniah}
}
