This dissertation offers an interdisciplinary approach to the intrinsic relationship between the chronicle and Venezuelan economic and political history, highlighting the intersection of information technology, mass media and culture. This interdisciplinary approach is based on an analytical framework that I have conceptualized as the economic imaginary, a term that I associate with the symbolic beliefs that a community shares about its economic policies and practices, and how they influence and effect the community’s daily life and vision of the economic environment. I focus on the production of Venezuelan chronicles, both printed and digital, covering the economic changes that occurred in the country since the government attempted to impose a neoliberal economic model through the transition towards a socialist economic model, between 1980 and 2013. Because the last part of the economic period that I study is linked to the Cuban socialist economic model, I also include an analysis of the common themes that Cuban and Venezuelan chronicles address in relation to citizens’ experiences under this economic model. I analyze the impact of the economic policies on the daily lives of Venezuelans from topics related to gastronomy, the city, holidays, propaganda slogans, television programs, consumerism, and economic policies. This innovative project broadens the conception of the chronicle as a literary genre and social communication medium particularly effective in de-constructing and re-constructing a variety of economic imaginaries, linking expectations and individual and collective economic experiences, disseminating ideas and economic principles through non-specialized language, critiquing the economic state of the country through subjective and symbolic elaboration, delineating the changes and economic motivations that shape behaviors and establish organizational principles, and connecting collective and individual perspectives on economic experiences with the political and socio-cultural imaginaries at both local and global levels. In short, my dissertation brings to light the representation of the Venezuelan economic imaginary from an array of ideological perspectives embedded in the chronicle.
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Spanish
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Venezuela--Politics and government
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (viii, 282 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Irma Palma de Sanchez
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School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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