Venezuela Reframed

Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández is a lecturer in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Sydney. He has extensive fieldwork experience in Latin America and Spain and has lived, worked and researched in Venezuela for nearly a decade. Recent academic publications include The Politics of Identity in Latin American Censuses (2015) and Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent (2014). He has also been a contributor to various media outlets, such as Aporrea.org, Rebelion.org and Theconversation.com.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Historical overview2. Into the people3. Balance of enfranchisement4. Collective action through the electoral sphere5. The state-supporting and state-sponsored indigenous movement6. Contentious collective action in the margins of and outside the chavista bloc7. Indigenous peoples, capitalism and the political economy of the socialisms of the twenty-first century in Latin America8. Closing remarksAppendix: Extraordinary Assembly

Obligatory reading for students of indigenous societies and economies and for those of us suspicious of some of the more romantic approaches to the "Pink Tide" in Latin America.