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“What’s important about this book is the way she captures urban social movements. What Sujata is looking at in this book is the barrios of Venezuela, the shanty towns around Caracas and other urban centres. She talks about the relationship that urban social movements had with Hugo Chávez’s government. Chávez is usually understood as being quite a populist figure, and a lot of the media narrative created this idea of unswerving popular loyalty to Hugo Chávez. What Sujata Fernandez points out is that, actually, this was a two-way process. This is really neglected and misunderstood.” Read more...
Julia Buxton, Policy Analyst
