Futures Held Hostage
Confronting US Hybrid Wars and Sanctions in Venezuela
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208 pages
978-0-7453-4211-5 (ISBN)
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In the wake of the failed coup in January 2019, the US has targeted Venezuela through a combination of non-traditional means. Rather than deploying military force, it has engaged in a 'hybrid war', using state and non-state actors to exert political, economic and social pressure across various spheres of everyday life. This has deliberately impacted the poorest and most vulnerable citizens. Futures Held Hostage explores the features of this hybrid war, showing that the victims are being 'held hostage' with no foreseeable resolution.
With essays from historian Vijay Prashad, journalists Belen Fernandez and Anya Parampil, economist Prabhat Patnaik, and political theorist George Ciccariello-Maher, as well as interviews with figures such as UN diplomat Samuel Moncada, and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, this book exposes the ways that the Venezuelan people have experienced the effects of sanctions, rising mortality and decreasing life expectancy due to impaired distribution of food, medicine, housing and healthcare.
Futures Held Hostage demonstrates that this punishment is a response to Venezuela's attempts to assert its independence from international finance capital and construct a future at odds with global neoliberal regimes. A mass, popular movement against US policy will be a vital component of a more just and equitable future in Venezuela, the United States, and the world at large.
With essays from historian Vijay Prashad, journalists Belen Fernandez and Anya Parampil, economist Prabhat Patnaik, and political theorist George Ciccariello-Maher, as well as interviews with figures such as UN diplomat Samuel Moncada, and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, this book exposes the ways that the Venezuelan people have experienced the effects of sanctions, rising mortality and decreasing life expectancy due to impaired distribution of food, medicine, housing and healthcare.
Futures Held Hostage demonstrates that this punishment is a response to Venezuela's attempts to assert its independence from international finance capital and construct a future at odds with global neoliberal regimes. A mass, popular movement against US policy will be a vital component of a more just and equitable future in Venezuela, the United States, and the world at large.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (UK-trade)
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11 colour photographs
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-4211-5 (9780745342115)
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Jordan T. Camp is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Co-Director of the Racial Capitalism Working Group in the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016); co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of Clyde Woods' posthumously published, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 2017). He is currently editing and writing, As Goes the South: The Life and Lessons of Roz Pelles, co-editing (with Chris Caruso) David Harvey's The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles (Pluto, 2020), and writing The Long Vendetta: Twentieth Counterinsurgency and the Survival of Capitalism.
Content
Contents
Introduction: Futures Held Hostage - Jordan T. Camp (The People's Forum) and Manu Karuka (Barnard College)
I. Sanctions
1. Sanctions Under the Shadow of Anti-Colonialism - Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
2. The Violence and Economic Destruction Caused by US Economic Sanctions in Venezuela - Joe Sammut (PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London) and Gregory Wilpert (Deputy Editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking)
3. How U.S. Sanctions Enables the Theft of Venezuela's Most Valuable Asset - Anya Parampil (Journalist)
4. Venezuela: Communes Against Sanctions - George Ciccariello-Maher (Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Drexel University in Philadelphia)
II. Imperialism
5. The Modus Operandi of Contemporary Imperialism - Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
6. Washington's Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela: Multipronged Intervention in an Age of
Globalization - Jeb Sprague (University of California, Riverside)
7. Elliot Abrams, weaponized - Belen Fernandez (Writer and Editor)
III. Solidarity
8. Venezuela and People's Resistance Against Imperialism - Miguel Stedile (Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil and Via Campesina Internacional)
9.Sanctions are a Crime: An Interview with Samuel Moncada - Jordan T. Camp
10. The Media War on Venezuela: An Interview with Eugene Puryear - Jordan T. Camp and Manu Karuka
11. Everybody Has a Right to Live: An Interview with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis - Jordan T. Camp
Appendix: Political Chronology
Introduction: Futures Held Hostage - Jordan T. Camp (The People's Forum) and Manu Karuka (Barnard College)
I. Sanctions
1. Sanctions Under the Shadow of Anti-Colonialism - Vijay Prashad (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)
2. The Violence and Economic Destruction Caused by US Economic Sanctions in Venezuela - Joe Sammut (PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London) and Gregory Wilpert (Deputy Editor at the Institute for New Economic Thinking)
3. How U.S. Sanctions Enables the Theft of Venezuela's Most Valuable Asset - Anya Parampil (Journalist)
4. Venezuela: Communes Against Sanctions - George Ciccariello-Maher (Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Drexel University in Philadelphia)
II. Imperialism
5. The Modus Operandi of Contemporary Imperialism - Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
6. Washington's Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela: Multipronged Intervention in an Age of
Globalization - Jeb Sprague (University of California, Riverside)
7. Elliot Abrams, weaponized - Belen Fernandez (Writer and Editor)
III. Solidarity
8. Venezuela and People's Resistance Against Imperialism - Miguel Stedile (Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil and Via Campesina Internacional)
9.Sanctions are a Crime: An Interview with Samuel Moncada - Jordan T. Camp
10. The Media War on Venezuela: An Interview with Eugene Puryear - Jordan T. Camp and Manu Karuka
11. Everybody Has a Right to Live: An Interview with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis - Jordan T. Camp
Appendix: Political Chronology