Revolutionary Venezuelan Politics
21 October 2013 Revolutionary Venezuelan Politics
George Ciccariello-Maher writer, radical political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drexel University will discuss the popular revolutionary undercurrents of Venezuelan politics on Friday, Nov. 1.
Ciccariello-Mahers first book, recently published byDuke University Press (2013), is a history of revolutionary movements in Venezuela, titledWe Created Chvez: A Peoples History of the Venezuelan Revolution.
George is a rising star in political theory and comparative politics, says Jodi Dean, professor of political science. His new book boldly challenges the myth of Chavez as it situates Chavez with a legacy of radical peoples struggles.
His book presents a new history of Venezuelan political activism,[l]ed by leftist guerrillas, women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous people, and students, [and] the dynamic interplay between the Chavez government, revolutionary social movements, and the Venezuelan people.
Ciccariello-Mahers second book (forthcoming) is a theoretical analysis ofviolence and revolutionary identity in French syndicalist Georges Sorel, Black revolutionary Frantz Fanon, and Latin American philosopher of liberation Enrique Dussel titledDecolonizing Dialectics.
Ciccariello-Maher has taught radical theory and politics at U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He holds a B.A. in government and economics from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. and M.A. in social and political sciences from St. Johns College, University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from U.C. Berkeley.
His dispatches, academic articles and translations are widely published and anthologized. He appears and is quoted frequently in the media on subjects ranging from Venezuelan politics to the Occupy Movement, notablyAl Jazeera,Fox News Live,CNN Espaol,Russia Today,National Public Radio,Telemundo, theNew York Times, theChristian Science Monitor, and BrazilsGazeta do PovoandCorreio Braziliense.
Ciccariello-Mahers talk will be held 1:30 p.m. in the Sanford Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library, and is sponsored by the Political Science Department and Latin America Studies Program.