1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715926303321

Autore

Peck William C.

Titolo

Landing characteristics of an autogiro / / by William C. Peck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, [D.C.] : , : National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, , 1934

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (9 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) : illustrations

Collana

Technical note / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ; ; No. 508

Soggetti

Autogiros

Airplanes - Landing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 1934."

No Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) item number.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 8).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910984666503321

Autore

Wilde Matt

Titolo

A Blessing and a Curse : Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela / Matt Wilde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Redwood City, : Stanford University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781503637085

1503637085

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Disciplina

305.5/62098732

900

Soggetti

Working class - Venezuela - Valencia (Carabobo)

Petroleum industry and trade - Government policy - Venezuela

Petroleum industry and trade - Moral and ethical aspects - Venezuela

Valencia (Carabobo, Venezuela) Social conditions

Valencia (Carabobo, Venezuela) Politics and government

Venezuela Politics and government 1999-

Venezuela Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sowing the Oil -- 2. Portrait of a Political Family -- 3. Aspirations and Disparities in the Bolivarian Barrio -- 4. Insecurity and the Search for Moral Order -- 5. The Moral Life of Revolution -- 6. Petro-democracy and its Ambiguities -- 7. The Weight of the Future -- 8. The Unraveling -- 9. Beyond the Magical State -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

"A Blessing and a Curse examines the lived experience of political change, moral uncertainty, and economic crisis amid Venezuela's controversial Bolivarian Revolution. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in an urban barrio over the course of a decade, Matt Wilde argues that everyday life in this period was intimately shaped by a critical contradiction: that in their efforts to capture a larger portion of



oil money and distribute it more widely among the population, the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro pursued policies that ultimately entrenched Venezuela in the very position of dependency they sought to overcome. Offering a new synthesis between anthropological work on energy, politics, and morality, the book explores how the use of oil money to fund the revolution's social programs and political reforms produced profound cultural anxieties about the contaminating effects of petroleum revenues in everyday settings. Tracing how these anxieties rippled out into community life, family networks, and local politics, Wilde shows how questions about how to live a good life came to be intimately shaped by Venezuela's contradictory relationship with oil. In doing so, he proposes a new way of thinking about the political and moral economies of natural resources in postcolonial settings"--