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<a href="http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/Andes_Revolution_in_Venezuela" target="_blank">http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/events/Andes_Revolution_in_Venezuela</a><br><br><h1>The Andes Initiative presents: Panel on "The Revolution in Venezuela"</h1>
<div>By <i>sjampel</i></div>
<div>Created <i>08/30/2011 - 10:03</i></div>
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<b>Date:</b> <span>September 15, 2011</span>
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<b>Time:</b> 6:00 - 7:30 pm </div>
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<b>Location:</b> <a href="http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/about/directions" target="_blank">CGIS</a> <span>[2]</span> South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA </div>
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<b>Contact:</b> Paola Ibarra, <a href="mailto:pibarra@fas.harvard.edu" title="mailto:pibarra@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">pibarra@fas.harvard.edu</a> <span>[3]</span> </div>
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<div>Is Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution
under Hugo Chávez truly revolutionary? Most books and articles tend to
view the Chávez 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 Chávez government does not fall easily into a seamless
fable of emancipatory or authoritarian history, as these essays make
clear.<br>
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’s political polarization. The
chapters range from Fernando Coronil’s “Bolivarian Revolution,” which
examines the relationship between the state’s social body (its
population) and its natural body (its oil reserves), to an insightful
look at women’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 Chávez government are helping
articulate a new Latin American left.<br>
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Panelists: <br>
Mark Weisbrot, Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, D.C.<br>
Cathy Rakowski, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Rural Sociology, Ohio State University<br>
Thomas Ponniah, Professor at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, George Brown College <br>
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Discussant: Merilee Grindle<br>
<i>Reception to follow</i><br></div>
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