Books by Sujatha Fernandes
“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
Interviews where books by Sujatha Fernandes were recommended
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The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela
by Fernando Coronil -
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The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
by Miguel Tinker Salas -
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Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
by Richard Gott -
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Who Can Stop the Drums: Urban Social Movements in Chavez’s Venezuela
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The Collapse of Venezuela: Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline 2012-2020
by Francisco Rodriguez
The best books on Venezuela, recommended by Julia Buxton
The best books on Venezuela, recommended by Julia Buxton
In early January 2026 US forces arrested the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and took him into custody in the US, charged with drug offences. Political scientist Julia Buxton chooses five books on modern Venezuelan politics and explains that this is only the latest political catastrophe to befall a country that has been plagued by its vast oil reserves. An endowment of natural resources that was expected to make the country rich when they were discovered in the early 20th century has only succeeded in making it poor and politically unstable.
