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Democratizing the Republic by instituting the informal: the irregularity of the barrios of Caracas and Venezuelan democratization (1941-1964)

Démocratiser la République en instituant l’informel : l’irrégularité des barrios de Caracas et la démocratisation vénézuélienne (1941-1964)

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Book chapter to be published by The University of Chicago Press and edited by Pr. Brodwyn Fischer and Pr. Charlotte Vorms. This chapter aims to show that the democratization of the Venezuelan political system in the early years of the 4th Republic led to the public authorities’ de facto abandonment of a policy to regularize these informal neighbourhoods. This evolution is examined here from a dual perspective. Adopting a systemic approach, it is analysed as the development of a sui generis and eminently politicized way of constructing the working-class areas of Venezuela’s cities (the barrios), which were legally irregular and enduring in their social and political environment. Taking a historical point of view, it is considered as a product of social and political tensions that meant that the emerging democratic regime’s association with the barrios populations presented a major problem in Caracas in terms of political stabilization for the new elites in power.

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hal-03762386 , version 1 (08-09-2022)
hal-03762386 , version 2 (18-08-2023)

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Serge Ollivier. Democratizing the Republic by instituting the informal: the irregularity of the barrios of Caracas and Venezuelan democratization (1941-1964). 2023. ⟨hal-03762386v2⟩
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