Venezuela

The invention of racial democracy in Venezuela

Pablo Quintero pquintero@filo.uba.ar Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina Abstract: This paper explores the formation of racial democracy myth in Venezuela, by analysing Venezuelan novel Doña Bárbara, by Rómulo Gallegos. Published for the first time in 1929, this novel is one of the foundational works both of the racial democracy myth and contemporary arrangements […]

Regimes of National Belonging in Contemporary Venezuela and Dominican Republic

Abstract: This paper examines two explicitly exclusive/inclusive national belonging regimes, by discussing two case studies of current negotiations on alien status and nationality in Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In the latter, from the governmental initiative in 2004 for “alien people regularization and naturalization”, Venezuelan citizenship was bestowed on undocumented immigrants, some of them as a […]

“We are Afro-socialists”: frameworks for collective action and ethnoracialization of Afro-Yaracuyan rural movement in Veroes, Venezuela

Abstract: This paper analyzes the processes of ethno-racialization of the Afro-Yaracuyan rural movement in the state of Yaracuy, in Venezuela. Following an ethnographic approach, we study how territorial organizations in this movement have given rise to new frameworks for collective action intending to mobilize both ethno-racial identities and productive/ peasant identities. Similarly, we address how the […]