The Confrontational ‘Us and Them’ Dynamics of Polarised Politics in Venezuela
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The Confrontational ‘Us and Them’ Dynamics of Polarised Politics in Venezuela: A Post-Structuralist Examination(Radical Subjects in International Politics)

The Confrontational ‘Us and Them’ Dynamics of Polarised Politics in Venezuela: A Post-Structuralist Examination(Radical Subjects in International Politics)

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This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding polarised politics. Contrary to the common understanding that polarisation is associated with populism and illiberal democracies, this book demonstrates that polarisation is by no means the result of one anti-democratic side of the conflict. By proposing this analytical inquiry, this book advances a new theoretical framework to characterise politics as either polarised or not. This framework is a unique approach that integrates people’s agency and socio-historical constraints to explain polarisation in depth. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of discourse, subject, and governmentality, and Laclau’s concept of logics and hegemony, this framework focuses on how to distinguish polarised politics from another form of politics. As a technology of power, polarisation can be performed by a variety of actors and is governed by a broad, conscious end, that is organising society by reducing the possibilities of alternative ways of thinking, speaking and doing politics to two options. This study takes a deep dive into the political polarisation in Venezuela, a country with almost two decades of conflict between Chavismo and the Opposition disputing the meaning of democracy, and with the most critical crisis in the Americas as a result of polarisation. With close attention paid to the logics or rationalities of power to explain what lies behind definitions of democracy. This analysis allows us to observe the rationalities and dynamics beyond what is said, in particular, the book explores hegemonic logics (myths, fantasies of threats and promises) used by both political groups to create a political identity.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction Part I: A Revisited Concept of Political Polarisation Chapter 2. Polarised Politics: Antagonism, Logic and Subjectivity Part II: Analysing Polarised Politics in Venezuela Chapter 3. Venezuelan Case: Oil, Inequalities and Clash between two Models of Democracy Chapter 4. Logics of Hegemony: Between “Us and Them” Chapter 5. Subjectivity and Polarisation: From Subjection to Subjectivation Chapter 6. Normalising Polarisation: “O Eres Chicha o Limonada” Conclusion: Transcending the Logic of “Us and Them” Index References


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538144480
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Series Title: Radical Subjects in International Politics
  • Sub Title: A Post-Structuralist Examination
  • Width: 161 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1538144484
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 535 gr


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