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Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela

Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela

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  • Robert Samet
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9780226633565
  • 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches
  • 1 pounds
  • Social Science > Anthropology - Cultural & Social
  • English
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Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch�vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and instead emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicol�s Maduro, took the opposite approach, declaring an all-out war on crime (mano dura). What accounts for this drastic shift toward more punitive measures?

In Deadline, anthropologist Robert Samet answers this question by focusing on the relationship between populism, the press, and what he calls the will to security. Drawing on nearly a decade of ethnographic research alongside journalists on the Caracas crime beat, he shows how the media shaped the politics of security from the ground up. Paradoxically, Venezuela's punitive turn was not the product of dictatorship, but rather an outgrowth of practices and institutions normally associated with democracy. Samet reckons with this apparent contradiction by exploring the circulation of extralegal denuncias (accusations) by crime journalists, editors, sources, and audiences. Denuncias are a form of public shaming or expos� that channels popular anger against the powers that be. By showing how denuncias mobilize dissent, Deadline weaves a much larger tale about the relationship between the press, popular outrage, and the politics of security in the twenty-first century.

Deadline: Populism and the Press in Venezuela

Author Bio

Professor Samet specializes in media, urban violence, and the politics of security in Latin America. A legal and political anthropologist, he has been conducting fieldwork in Venezuela since 2006. His first research project was alongside crime journalists in Caracas. 

It is the subject of a book manuscript in progress Who’s Afraid of Caracas?: Sovereignty and Spectacles of Security in Venezuela. Currently, he is beginning a pair of new research projects. The first is on security as it relates to transnational immigration in and out of Venezuela. The second looks at the political economy of energy and electricity shortages in Venezuela, which is one of the world’s leading oil producing countries. His research interests also include social movements, democracy, sovereignty, colonialism, science studies, and critical race studies.

 

Source: Union College 

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