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"Over the last few decades, the decline of the public university has dramatically increased under intensified commercialization and privatization, with market-driven restructurings leading to the deterioration of working and learning conditions. A growing reserve army of scholars and students, who enter precarious learning, teaching, and research arrangements, have joined recent waves of public unrest in both developed and developing countries to advocate for reforms to higher education. Yet even the most visible campaigns have rarely put forward any proposals for an alternative institutional organization. Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez's government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. Through participant observation, extensive interviews with policymakers, senior managers, academics, and students, as well as in-depth archival work, Mariya Ivancheva historicizes the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV), the vanguard institution of the higher education reform, and examines the complex and often contradictory and quixotic visions, policies, and practices that turn the alternative university model into a lived reality. This book offers a serious contribution to debates on the future of the university and the role of the state in the era of neoliberal globalization, and outlines lessons for policymakers and educators who aspire to develop higher education alternatives"--

Higher education and state --- Educational change --- Alternative education --- Education, Higher --- Political aspects --- Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela. --- Bolivarian revolution. --- Venezuela. --- academic labour. --- class. --- higher education reform. --- mobility. --- social inequalities. --- socialism. --- universities.

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This book includes a set of papers on the political and economic development problems that have occurred in Latin America in recent decades.

Political structure & processes --- Neoliberalism. --- Neoliberalismo. --- Socialismo. --- Socialism. --- Venezuela. --- Marxism --- Social democracy --- Socialist movements --- Collectivism --- Anarchism --- Communism --- Critical theory --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Venesuėla --- Republic of Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- Gobierno Bolivariano --- Estados Unidos de Venezuela --- Венесуэла --- Баліварыянская Рэспубліка Венесуэла --- Balivaryi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Венецуела --- Venet︠s︡uela --- Боливарска република Венецуела --- Bolivarska republika Venet︠s︡uela --- Βενεζουέλα --- Venezouela --- Μπολιβαριανή Δημοκρατία της Βενεζουέλας --- Bolivarianē Dēmokratia tēs Venezouelas --- 베네수엘라 --- Penesuella --- 베네수엘라 볼리바르 공화국 --- Penesuella Bollibarŭ Konghwaguk --- Венесуэл --- Venesuėl --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Bolivaryn Venesuėl Uls --- ベネズエラ --- Benezuera --- ベネズエラ・ボリバル共和国 --- Benezuera Boribaru Kyōwakoku --- Боливарианская Республика Венесуэла --- Bolivarianskai︠a︡ Respublika Venesuėla --- Venecuela --- Bolivarska Republika Venecuela --- Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta --- Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela --- Bolivarcı Venezuela Cumhuriyeti --- Wenesuela --- Wenesuela Boliwar Respublikasy --- Венесуела --- Боліварианська Республіка Венесуела --- Bolivaryansʹka Respublika Venesuela --- 委內瑞拉 --- Weineiruila --- 委內瑞拉玻利瓦爾共和國 --- Weineiruila Boliwa'er Gongheguo --- Latin America --- Venezuela --- Bolivarian Revolution --- Socialism --- Neoliberalism

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In contrast to recent theories of the 'global' Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela's literary isolation. The latter results from factors including the legacy of the Boom and historically low levels of emigration from Venezuela. Grounded in theories of metafiction and intertextuality, the book provides a close reading of eight novels published between 2004 (the year in which the first Minister for Culture was appointed) and 2012 (the last full year of President Chávez's life), relating these novels to the context of their production. Each chapter explores a way in which these novels reflect on writing, from the protagonists as readers and writers in different contexts, through appearances from real life writers, to experiments with style and popular culture, and finally questioning the boundaries between fiction and reality. This literary analysis complements overarching studies of the Bolivarian Revolution by offering an insight into how Bolivarian policies and practices affect people on an individual, emotional and creative level. In this context, self-reflexive narratives afford their writers a form of political agency.

Venezuelan literature --- Politics and literature --- Nationalism and literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- 2000-2099 --- Venezuela. --- Balivaryi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika Venesuėla --- Benezuera --- Benezuera Boribaru Kyōwakoku --- Bolivarcı Venezuela Cumhuriyeti --- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela --- Bolivarianē Dēmokratia tēs Venezouelas --- Bolivarianska republiken Venezuela --- Bolivarianskai͡a Respublika Venesuėla --- Bolivarska Republika Venecuela --- Bolivarska republika Venet͡suela --- Bolivaryansʹka Respublika Venesuela --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Bolivaryn Venesuėl Uls --- Estados Unidos de Venezuela --- Gobierno Bolivariano --- Penesuella --- Penesuella Bollibarŭ Konghwaguk --- Republic of Venezuela --- República Bolivariana de Venezuela --- República de Venezuela --- Venecuela --- Venesuėl --- Venesuėla --- Venet͡suela --- Venezouela --- Venezuelan bolivariaaninen tasavalta --- Weineiruila --- Weineiruila Boliwa'er Gongheguo --- Wenesuela --- Wenesuela Boliwar Respublikasy --- metafiction --- cultural policy --- literary circulation --- Bolivarian Revolution