Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela: A Lecture by Alejandro Velasco (10.20.15) | Latin American Studies

Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela: A Lecture by Alejandro Velasco (10.20.15)

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Starts: 4:00 pm on Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Ends: 6:00 pm on Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor)

Join us for a lecture by Alejandro Velasco, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at New York University, a former Social Science Research Council Fellow, and a frequent contributor to NPR, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Associated Press, and other media.

Beginning in the late 1950s, political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela’s largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chávez.

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