LEADER 05648nam 2201009 450 001 9910797240703321 005 20230807215802.0 010 $a0-520-95918-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520959187 035 $a(CKB)3710000000430943 035 $a(EBL)1882098 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001497328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12647266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11495072 035 $a(PQKB)10534523 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1882098 035 $a(DE-B1597)519055 035 $a(OCoLC)910935589 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520959187 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1882098 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11065013 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL797638 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000430943 100 $a20150627h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBarrio rising $eurban popular politics and the making of modern Venezuela /$fAlejandro Velasco 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-28332-5 311 $a0-520-28331-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction: A History of Place and Nation --$t1. Dictatorship's Blocks: The Battle for the New Urban Venezuela --$t2. Democracy's Projects: Occupying the Spaces of Revolution --$t3. From Ballots to Bullets: The Rise of Urban Insurgency, 1958-1963 --$t4. "The Fight Was Fierce": Uncertain Victories in the Streets and the Polls, 1963-1969 --$t5. Water, Women, and Protest: The Return of Local Activism, 1969-1977 --$t6. "A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Seizing the Promise of Participation, 1979-1988 --$t7. Killing Democracy's Promise: A Massacre of People and Expectations --$tConclusion: Revolutionary Projects --$tAPPENDIX --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aBeginning in the late 1950's political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising-unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela's largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. In the mid-1950's, a military government bent on modernizing Venezuela razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). During the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of el veintitrés learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy-both radical and electoral-whose features still resonate today. Blending rich narrative accounts with incisive analyses of urban space, politics, and everyday life, Barrio Rising offers a sweeping reinterpretation of modern Venezuelan history as seen not by its leaders but by residents of one of the country's most distinctive popular neighborhoods. 606 $aPolitical participation$zVenezuela$zCaracas 606 $aCity planning$xPolitical aspects$zVenezuela$zCaracas 606 $aSquatters$xPolitical activity$zVenezuela$zCaracas 607 $aVenezuela$xPolitics and government$y20th century 610 $a1950s. 610 $a1958. 610 $a20th century. 610 $abarrios. 610 $abolivarian revolution. 610 $acaracas. 610 $ademocracy. 610 $aethnographers. 610 $aethnographic research. 610 $ahistorians. 610 $ahousing. 610 $ahugo chavez. 610 $aillegal occupation. 610 $alatin america scholars. 610 $alatin america. 610 $alatin american studies. 610 $amilitary government. 610 $amodern venezuela. 610 $amodernization. 610 $apolitical leaders. 610 $apopular politics. 610 $aprotests. 610 $apublic housing community. 610 $aslums. 610 $astate violence. 610 $aurban landscape. 610 $aurban politics. 610 $aurbanization. 610 $avenezuelan history. 610 $aviolent history. 610 $aworking poor. 615 0$aPolitical participation 615 0$aCity planning$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSquatters$xPolitical activity 676 $a987.06/3 700 $aVelasco$b Alejandro$f1978-$01484038 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797240703321 996 $aBarrio rising$93702530 997 $aUNINA