1st Edition
Culture as Renewable Oil How Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate
Introduction
1. Entanglements of Oil, Modernity, State and Culture in Venezuela
2. Oil in the Intersection between Territory, Bureaucratic Power and Culture as a Resource
3. Territory Effect, the New Geometry of Power and the Construction of a Petro-Socialist State Space
4. Bureaucratic Power, Performative Speech and Oil Policy: ‘Sow the Oil’ to ‘Harvest Culture’
5. Giant Oil Workers and the Expediency of Culture as Renewable Oil
Conclusion. The Untenable Utopia of Oil
Biography
Penélope Plaza Azuaje is a Venezuelan architect, researcher and urban artivist. She researches the entanglements between oil, politics, culture and urban space, with a particular interest in urban artivism, and contemporary Venezuelan petro-politics. She holds a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management from City University of London and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently she is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, University of Reading.
