Popular Power, Agency and Communes in Venezuela

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dc.contributor.advisorDale, John G
dc.contributor.authorBean, Anderson Mckinley
dc.creatorBean, Anderson Mckinley
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-21T19:17:19Z
dc.date.available2018-10-21T19:17:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractSince 2006, over 44,000 grassroots neighborhood-based communal councils and 1,400 communes have been constructed in Venezuela. These councils are permanent governing structures that bring together members of community organizations from poor neighborhoods around issues like access to clean water, electricity, healthcare, and education. Communes are larger bodies of popular power and collections of communal councils that operate to make more long term decisions and decisions that affect larger geographic areas. Drawing on qualitative interviews with council and commune organizers and participant observations at communal council and commune activities and assemblies, this dissertation analyzes popular and workers’ power, the ways in which networks of popular power exercise agency in their own development, and the potential these networks have for state and societal transformation that extends beyond Venezuela. Most importantly, this study explores the far reaching implications that the communal movement in Venezuela has for building a society more responsive to the needs of ordinary people than to those of elites.
dc.format.extent181 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/11140
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2017 Anderson Mckinley Bean
dc.subjectSociology
dc.subjectDemocracy
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectPolitical Sociology
dc.subjectPopular Power
dc.subjectSocial Movements
dc.subjectVenezuela
dc.titlePopular Power, Agency and Communes in Venezuela
dc.typeDissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelPh.D.

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