Channeling the State

Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela

Naomi Schiller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0111-9 (ISBN)

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Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launched in 2000 by activists from the barrios of Caracas. Run on the principle that state resources should serve as a weapon of the poor to advance revolutionary social change, the station covered everything from Hugo ChÁvez’s speeches to barrio residents' complaints about bureaucratic mismanagement. In Channeling the State, Naomi Schiller explores how and why Catia TVe's founders embraced alliances with Venezuelan state officials and institutions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research among the station's participants, Schiller shows how community television production created unique openings for Caracas's urban poor to embrace the state as a collective process with transformative potential. Rather than an unchangeable entity built for the exercise of elite power, the state emerges in Schiller's analysis as an uneven, variable process and a contentious terrain where institutions are continuously made and remade. In Venezuela under ChÁvez, media activists from poor communities did not assert their autonomy from the state but rather forged ties with the middle class to question whose state they were constructing and who it represented.

Naomi Schiller is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. State-Media Relations and the Rise of Catia TVe 23
2. Community Media as Everyday State Formation 62
3. Class Acts 89
4. Channeling ChÁvez 128
5. Mediating Women 164
6. Reckoning with Press Freedom 196
Conclusion 227
Notes 241
References 251
Index 269

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Radical Américas
Zusatzinfo	18 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0111-9 / 1478001119
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0111-9 / 9781478001119
Zustand	Neuware