Deadline : populism and the press in Venezuela /

Deadline : populism and the press in Venezuela /

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Author / Creator:	Samet, Robert, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xi, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Chicago studies in practices of meaning Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Subject:	Crime and the press -- Venezuela -- Caracas. Crime -- Political aspects -- Venezuela -- Caracas. Populism -- Venezuela. Denunciation (Criminal law) -- Venezuela. Crime and the press. Crime -- Political aspects. Denunciation (Criminal law) Populism. Venezuela. Venezuela -- Caracas.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11939793

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ISBN:	9780226633565 022663356X 9780226633732 022663373X 9780226633879
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicol s Maduro, has taken the opposite approach, declaring an all-out war on crime instead. What accounts for this drastic shift toward more punitive measures? In Deadline, anthropologist Robert Samet answers this question by focusing on the relationship between populism, the press, and what he calls "the will to security." Drawing on nearly a decade of ethnographic research alongside journalists on the Caracas crime beat, he shows how media shaped the politics of security from the ground up. Paradoxically, Venezuela's punitive turn was not the product of dictatorship, but rather an outgrowth of practices and institutions normally associated with democracy. Samet reckons with this seeming contradiction by exploring the circulation of extra-legal denuncias ("accusations") by crime journalists, editors, sources, and audiences. Denuncias are public shamings, which, instead of targeting individuals, channel popular anger against the perceived failures of ruling governments. A well-timed denuncia has the power to topple regimes and create the conditions of possibility for revolution. Deadline is a carefully woven story about the relationship between the press, popular outrage, and the politics of security in the twenty-first century.
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