Channeling The State: Community Media And Popular Politics In Venezuela paperback english - 19 Oct 2018

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Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN 13: 9781478001447
Book Description: Venezuela's most prominent community television station, Catia TVe, was launched in 2000 by activists from the barrios of Caracas. Run on the principle that state resources should serve as a weapon of the poor to advance revolutionary social change, the station covered everything from Hugo Chavez's speeches to barrio residents' complaints about bureaucratic mismanagement. In Channeling the State, Naomi Schiller explores how and why Catia TVe's founders embraced alliances with Venezuelan state officials and institutions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research among the station's participants, Schiller shows how community television production created unique openings for Caracas's urban poor to embrace the state as a collective process with transformative potential. Rather than an unchangeable entity built for the exercise of elite power, the state emerges in Schiller's analysis as an uneven, variable process and a contentious terrain where institutions are continuously made and remade. In Venezuela under Chavez, media activists from poor communities did not assert their autonomy from the state but rather forged ties with the middle class to question whose state they were constructing and who it represented.
Editorial Review: Schiller's book boldly unthinks commonsensical categories in the liberal episteme, namely 'the state' and 'society.' Doing so casts the popular classes not as victims of Western imperialism or of Chavista hegemony, but as activated agents who debated in what kind of state would be made. It is an important entry in the emergent field of Chavismo media studies. -- Noah Zweig * International Journal of Communication * "This book joins a significant body of anthropological and theoretical work on the state and society in Venezuela. . . . This book is a highly useful aid to that project." -- Daniel Hellinger * Journal of Anthropological Research * "This text is important because it so carefully recorded the explanatory principles of Catia TVe and the impact of media technology in the hands of the community desperate to affect state process and policy. . . . This study is quite timely, considering the events that took place in Venezuela in March 2019. It will help future researchers to see whether the theory of community TV and its ethos had a long-lasting impact on the people those stations were designed to serve." -- Albert Tedesco * Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media * "Schiller's book is a thorough description of how class and gender affect active citizenship and how these factors create constant conflict in everyday practices of meaning making." -- Virpi Salojarvi * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly * "In this engaging book . . . Schiller is able to buttress critiques of top-down approaches to state power and state-building, showing readers how most interactions and relationships on the ground cannot be neatly categorized as either from above or from below." -- Anna Fournier * PoLAR * "This is a rich, timely and compelling piece of work that contributes significantly to debates about the state, press freedom, community media, class, gender and urban social movements. It will be of great value both to those interested specifically in Venezuela and those concerned with these themes in broader terms." -- Matt Wilde * ERLACS *
About the Author: Naomi Schiller is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Language: English
Author: Naomi Schiller
Publication Date: 19 Oct 2018
Number of Pages: 296