Abstract
Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela, by Naomi Schiller, Duke University Press, 2018
Highlights
Schiller begins by detailing the history of televised broadcasting in Venezuela
Focusing on how pro-government community media producers began to receive funding and training from the chavista state, Schiller draws conceptually on anthropological approaches to the state and argues against a sharp dichotomy between state and civil society. She asserts that state formation “is an ever-unfolding result of daily power-laden interactions between poor and elite social actors who jointly create the state through practices that are local, regional, and global” (p. 5)
Venezuela’s television networks were dominated by imported US sitcoms, films and sports, reflecting the strong cultural influence that North American consumer capitalism was already having on Venezuelan society
Summary
Schiller begins by detailing the history of televised broadcasting in Venezuela. She shows how its emergence in the 1950s developed in tandem with the country’s growing oil economy and its close cultural, economic and political ties with the United States. – Channelling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela, by Naomi Schiller, Duke University Press, 2018
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