{"product_id":"failures-of-the-imagination-reckoning-with-oil-in-venezuelan-cultural-production-9780822967965","title":"Failures of the Imagination: Reckoning with Oil in Venezuelan Cultural Production","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elizabeth Barrios\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Caribbean \u0026amp; Latin American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the precariousness of an oil-based economy and the government's professed concern about climate change, a failure of imagination regarding alternatives continues to trap Venezuela in an oil-fueled status quo. Elizabeth Barrios examines the ideologies that helped normalize oil production in Venezuela, which further made oil-led development appear to be the only path to prosperity. Anchored in analyses of literature and media from the 1930s to the 2000s, Barrios argues that the creation of post-oil societies is not simply a question of economics or technology; it is a cultural issue that requires engaging the artistic imagination. She calls for new ways of reading that re-situate Venezuelan cultural production within a planetary ecology of oil. With interdisciplinary reach across energy humanities, environmental studies, and Latin American cultural analysis, \u003ci\u003eFailures of the Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to confront the narrative infrastructures of extractivism and to imagine life beyond the logic of oil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47774810079383,"sku":"9780822967965","price":4237.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822967965.webp?v=1777986871","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/failures-of-the-imagination-reckoning-with-oil-in-venezuelan-cultural-production-9780822967965","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}