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As clear as MUD: government and opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela.
(2012)
Cannon, Barry; Gonzalez Torres, Ybiskay
As clear as MUD: government and opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela.
(2012)
Cannon, Barry; Gonzalez Torres, Ybiskay
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Since President Chávez was first elected in 1998, the Venezuelan opposition has tried civil disobedience, mass demonstrations, a coup, strikes/lock-outs and a recall referendum to remove him from office. None of it has worked. Now concentrating primarily on the electoral route, it has sought a united front through the MUD – the Mesa de Unidad Democrática (Democratic Unity Board). With relative electoral success in 2010 and a physically weakened Chávez, suffering from cancer, the upcoming 2012 presidential elections are the opposition’s best chance yet to finally oust the Venezuelan president. But if they succeed, who and what will replace him? This paper first looks at the historical trajectory of the Venezuelan Opposition’s power strategies. It then provides a detailed examination, based on fresh field research, of Opposition policy proposals. Finally it provides a detailed critique of these policies, the main point of which is that they are too ideologically and temporally bound ...
http://doras.dcu.ie/17580/
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Class/race polarisation in Venezuela and the electoral success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same?
(2008)
Cannon, Barry
Class/race polarisation in Venezuela and the electoral success of Hugo Chávez: a break with the past or the song remains the same?
(2008)
Cannon, Barry
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Polls have repeatedly shown a class based polarisation around Chávez, which some political science analysis on Venezuela has recognised. This paper seeks to show, however, that this class based division needs to be placed in historical context to be fully understood. Examining Venezuelan history from the colonial to the contemporary era the paper shows, unlike most previous work on Bolivarian Venezuela, that race is an important subtext to this class based support, and that there is indeed a correlation between class and race within the Venezuelan context. Furthermore, class and race are important positive elements in Chávez’s discourse, contrasting this with their negative use in opposition anti-Chavismo discourse. Finally the paper briefly reviews the Chávez government’s policy in tackling the class/race fissures in Venezuelan society, and concludes by asking whether these policies represent a change in the historical patterns of classism and racism within Venezuelan society or ar...
http://doras.dcu.ie/2146/
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Making Sense of Opposition in Venezuela: From the MUD to “La Salida” and Back.
(2016)
Cannon, Barry
Making Sense of Opposition in Venezuela: From the MUD to “La Salida” and Back.
(2016)
Cannon, Barry
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Since the election of President Nicolás Maduro, by a wafer-thin margin in elections last April 15th, Venezuela has experienced one of the most serious outbreaks of opposition-led violence and instability in recent years.1 This led to the deaths of over 40 people, from government, opposition and non-aligned sectors, the arrest of prominent right-wing opposition leader, Leopoldo López, who led the push for the ousting of Maduro – termed “La Salida” (meaning both ‘Exit’ and ‘Solution') - and the charging of another prominent leader María Corina Machado, among others. More recent reports suggest that as a result of this and other government actions against such opposition activity, the United States is moving closer to imposing sanctions on the Caribbean oil producing nation.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9331/
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Opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela: Caught Between Conflict and Compromise.
(2014)
Cannon, Barry
Opposition in Bolivarian Venezuela: Caught Between Conflict and Compromise.
(2014)
Cannon, Barry
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http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6331/
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Simulating movement-related resource dynamics to improve species distribution models: a case study with oilbirds in northern South America
(2018)
Holloway, Paul
Simulating movement-related resource dynamics to improve species distribution models: a case study with oilbirds in northern South America
(2018)
Holloway, Paul
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A better understanding of the current and future distributions of organisms is a critical facet of biodiversity conservation, and species distribution models (SDMs) are an important framework for achieving this. Despite the potential of SDMs to address an array of biogeography questions, they are subject to a number of conceptual and methodological uncertainties, such as the role of animal movement processes in determining geographic ranges. Movement processes have only recently been incorporated in SDMs, predominantly conceptualized as broad-scale movement processes (e.g., dispersal), while finer scale ambulatory movements of mobile animals (e.g., foraging) have been omitted. This research addresses this gap by developing a model that simulates the dynamic relationship between movement and biotic resources (e.g., food sources) for oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis) in Venezuela. This simulation represented the sustainability of an oilbird’s neighborhood, based on the connectivity, ac...
http://hdl.handle.net/10468/9172
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The Bolivarian University of Venezuela: A radical alternative in the global field of higher education?
(2015)
Ivancheva, Mariya P.
The Bolivarian University of Venezuela: A radical alternative in the global field of higher education?
(2015)
Ivancheva, Mariya P.
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This article discusses paradoxes in the emergent global field of higher education as refl ected in an alternative model of the university – the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) and the related higher education policy, Misión Sucre. With its credo in the applied social sciences, its commitment to popular pedagogy and its dependence on extensive fieldwork with communities, UBV offers an alternative model of science and research at the service of society. Drawing on my ongoing research on this university (since 2008), I present the difficulties which the homogenising standards of a global field of higher education pose to a rapidly developing mass public university in a semi-peripheral country. I focus on the difficulty of developing evaluation procedures for UBV as this exposes contradictions which are both unique to this new university model and common for a world system of higher education.
Marie Curie Fellowship
Wenner Gren Dissertation Fellowship
Venezuelan Ins...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7237
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Venezuela 2016: The Year of Living Dangerously
(2017)
Cannon, Barry; Browne, John
Venezuela 2016: The Year of Living Dangerously
(2017)
Cannon, Barry; Browne, John
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This article outlines the deepening political, social and economic crisis facing Venezuela. Overall, we argue that both government and opposition must take responsibility for the present crisis as both have failed to offer coherent policy responses to the problems facing the country. The government has failed to address the crisis with sufficient rigor, and seems more concerned with maintaining power, while the opposition MUD continues to offer the removal of the government as its sole solution to the crisis. Yet its policy proposals are poorly developed and do not offer long-term solutions to the country's problems. Finally, we suggest that the continuation of the Vatican/UNASUR-sponsored dialogue is the best way for Venezuela to advance if it wishes to restore economic and social stability and reduce political tension.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/9185/
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Venezuela, April 2002: Coup or Popular Rebellion? The Myth of a United Venezuela
(2004)
Cannon, Barry
Venezuela, April 2002: Coup or Popular Rebellion? The Myth of a United Venezuela
(2004)
Cannon, Barry
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This article assesses the merits of opposing National Assembly reports into the coup against President Chavez of Venezuela in April 2002. Looking at the historical context and the content of the reports, it argues that the two opposing accounts reflect a class division that has always existed in Venezuela but has been officially denied. It concludes that a possible exit from the stalemate could be that the opposition accept the reality of this class division and therefore the Chavez government as a legitimate representative of the popular classes. This, however, is unlikely in the present circumstances.
http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11943/
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