Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture under Chávez

Contributors

Contributors CArolInA ACoStA-Alzuru is associate professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Her scholarship focuses on the links between media, culture, and society. She is the author of the book Venezuela es una telenovela (2007). Her research has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Popular Communication , Communication Review, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Mass Communication and Society, among others. JulIA Buxton is senior research fellow in the Centre for International Cooperation and Security at the University of Bradford, UK. She has published extensively on the social, economic, and political changes under way in Venezuela and is a specialist on the narcotic drugs trade, democratization programming, and post-conflict reconstruction. Recent publications include The Politics of Narcotic Drugs (Routledge, 2010) and numerous articles on Venezuela in anthologies and journals. luIS duno GottBerG is associate professor of Caribbean studies and film at Rice University. His current research for an upcoming book, “Dangerous People: Hegemony, Representation and Culture in Contemporary Venezuela ,” explores the relationship between popular mobilization, radical politics, and culture. He is the author of Miradas al margen (Fundación Cinemateca Nacional, 2008), Solventando las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (Iberoamericana/Vervuer, 2003), Imagen y subalternidad: El cine de Víctor Gaviria (Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, 2003), and Cultura e identidad racial en América Latina: Revista Estudios (Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2002). SuJAthA FernAndeS is an assistant professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke, 2006) and Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke, 2010). 370 ContrIButorS MAríA PIlAr GArCíA-GuAdIllA is professor of urban planning and political sciences at the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. She is director of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Environmental, Urban, and Sociopolitical Conflict Resolution (GAuS-uSB) and has more than 120 academic publications in books and scientific journals, including three edited books on social movements. Currently, she is researching New Bolivarian social organizations and working on a book about the post-constitutional conflicts in polarized Venezuela. kIrk A. hAwkInS is assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University . He is the author of Venezuela’s Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2010). He studies Venezuelan politics and populism, as well as political parties and the politics of economic development. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, and Third World Quarterly. tIMothy GIll, who compiled the index, is a graduate student at the University of Georgia. dAnIel hellInGer is professor of political science at Webster University. He has published widely on Venezuelan politics, including (with co-editor Steve Ellner) Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era (Lynne Rienner, 2003). He is author most recently of Comparative Politics of Latin America: Democracy at Last? (Routledge, 2011). MIChAel e. JohnSon is an attorney in Washington, D.C. He received a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Global Law Scholar and the assistant submissions editor on the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. He has done research, humanitarian service, and legal work in Latin America. luIS e. lAnder is professor of the faculty of economic and social sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has published over sixty articles and chapters in academic books and journals both nationally and internationally , including the book Poder y petróleo en Venezuela (editor). He is a member of the editorial board of the Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales and was its director from 2004 to 2007. He is director of the electoral monitoring group Ojo Electoral. MArGArItA lóPez MAyA is professor in social sciences at the Center for Development Studies (CendeS) and the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where she is editor of the journal Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales. Her publications include Del Viernes Negro al Referendo Revocatorio (2005) and (editor) Protesta y cultura en Venezuela. Los marcos de acción colectiva en 1999 (2002). In 2008–9 she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. ContrIButorS 371 elIzABeth GACkStetter nICholS is professor of Spanish language and literature...