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Article recipient of the Paula Vázquez best essay award for Social Sciences 2025: "Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" is now out in Social Politics.
Congratulations @masayalb.bsky.social & @antuliorosales.bsky.social
Congratulations @masayalb.bsky.social & @antuliorosales.bsky.social
📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess
"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
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"Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️
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Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)
Abstract. This article brings together the literatures of predation and depletion via social reproduction (DSR) to provide an explanation of the Venezuelan
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December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Article recipient of the Paula Vázquez best essay award for Social Sciences 2025: "Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" is now out in Social Politics.
Congratulations @masayalb.bsky.social & @antuliorosales.bsky.social
Congratulations @masayalb.bsky.social & @antuliorosales.bsky.social
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An earlier version of this article was awarded the Paula Vazquez Prize for Best Essay in Social Science by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association @lasavenezuela.bsky.social Thanks to them for this recognition to our work!
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An earlier version of this article was awarded the Paula Vazquez Prize for Best Essay in Social Science by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association @lasavenezuela.bsky.social Thanks to them for this recognition to our work!
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Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History.
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History.
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
It is now open access!
online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
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@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado.
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado.
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela
🇻🇪♥️
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Muy feliz y honrado de recibir este premio que lleva el nombre de Paula Vásquez. Si por alguna razón no tienen acceso al artículo pueden escribirme al DM. #GentedeMar ❤️🤓
🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Muy feliz y honrado de recibir este premio que lleva el nombre de Paula Vásquez. Si por alguna razón no tienen acceso al artículo pueden escribirme al DM. #GentedeMar ❤️🤓
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Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)
October 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)
🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES
“Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social
🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES
“Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social
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Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
On the US incursion in the Caribbean with eye on #Venezuela, we recommend looking at our members' analysis for guidance and comprehension of the complex situation.
In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them.
🧵
In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them.
🧵
September 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
On the US incursion in the Caribbean with eye on #Venezuela, we recommend looking at our members' analysis for guidance and comprehension of the complex situation.
In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them.
🧵
In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them.
🧵
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Another interesting @jplaeditor.bsky.social issue with articles on Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, and a comparative analysis of democratic transitions @giga-hamburg.de www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/new...
New Journal of Politics in Latin America 2/2025
The current issue looks at the voting behaviour of small states in multilateral organisations using the example of Colombia, the role of a non-state actor in weakening democratic institutions and deep...
www.giga-hamburg.de
August 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Another interesting @jplaeditor.bsky.social issue with articles on Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, and a comparative analysis of democratic transitions @giga-hamburg.de www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/new...
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New article out now in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State".
📰 muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/gia....
In it, I examine the relationship between, well, transnational crime and the Venezuelan state under Maduro.
📰 muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/gia....
In it, I examine the relationship between, well, transnational crime and the Venezuelan state under Maduro.
Project MUSE - Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State
muse.jhu.edu
July 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New article out now in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State".
📰 muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/gia....
In it, I examine the relationship between, well, transnational crime and the Venezuelan state under Maduro.
📰 muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/gia....
In it, I examine the relationship between, well, transnational crime and the Venezuelan state under Maduro.
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Read John Polga-Hecimovich's "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State" in the new issue of
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, now available to read via @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, now available to read via @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
July 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Read John Polga-Hecimovich's "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State" in the new issue of
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, now available to read via @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, now available to read via @projectmuse.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/965801
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This desire to embrace a China-style mode of development may be difficult to achieve, due to the dynamics of primarization, opaqueness, and weak state capacity that China helped cement.
Check out the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chinese impact on development in Venezuela: the dynamics of structural stagnation
This article traces the impact of China’s engagement on development in Venezuela from 2001 to 2023. We build on long-established theories of development and evaluate how the relationship has influe...
www.tandfonline.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This desire to embrace a China-style mode of development may be difficult to achieve, due to the dynamics of primarization, opaqueness, and weak state capacity that China helped cement.
Check out the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 New on First View!
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85 | Journal of Global History | Cambridge Core
Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📢 New on First View!
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Tom Long (@tomlongphd.bsky.social) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (@caschulz.bsky.social) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism.
Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Read @tomlongphd.bsky.social & @caschulz.bsky.social's short essay in @us.theconversation.com covering their recent @apsrjournal.bsky.social article.
"How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order" - cup.org/3IBG3P5
"How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order" - cup.org/3IBG3P5
How 1860s Mexico offered an alternative vision for a liberal international order
France imposed an emperor on Mexico. The Mexican republic resisted.
theconversation.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Out now in New Political Economy is our article on China's impact in Venezuela's economic development. @benedictebull.bsky.social and I analyze the China-Venezuela relationship's effect on three main dimensions of development: industrialisation, economic diversification, and institutional capacity 🧵
Chinese impact on development in Venezuela: the dynamics of structural stagnation
This article traces the impact of China’s engagement on development in Venezuela from 2001 to 2023. We build on long-established theories of development and evaluate how the relationship has influe...
www.tandfonline.com
August 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Out now in New Political Economy is our article on China's impact in Venezuela's economic development. @benedictebull.bsky.social and I analyze the China-Venezuela relationship's effect on three main dimensions of development: industrialisation, economic diversification, and institutional capacity 🧵
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Coming soon: Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes by Carola Richter & Vedat Demir (Editors):
Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/public-dip...
Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/public-dip...
Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes|Hardcover
This book offers a timely exploration of how authoritarian states communicate with foreign publics, blending strategies of attraction, persuasion, manipulation, and control. As authoritarian regimes g...
www.barnesandnoble.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Coming soon: Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes by Carola Richter & Vedat Demir (Editors):
Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/public-dip...
Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/public-dip...
LASA Venezuela anuncia la convocatoria al Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 al Mejor artículo en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades y Mejor ponencia de estudiante de postgrado.
Fecha límite para envío de sus artículos o ponencias: 30 de agosto de 2025.
Fecha límite para envío de sus artículos o ponencias: 30 de agosto de 2025.
July 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
LASA Venezuela anuncia la convocatoria al Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 al Mejor artículo en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades y Mejor ponencia de estudiante de postgrado.
Fecha límite para envío de sus artículos o ponencias: 30 de agosto de 2025.
Fecha límite para envío de sus artículos o ponencias: 30 de agosto de 2025.
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💥💥💥CFP "Encrucijadas identitarias y transformación social: repensar los feminismos en el siglo XXI".
Fecha límite para envíos: 15 de septiembre de 2025.
Más información: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...
Fecha límite para envíos: 15 de septiembre de 2025.
Más información: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...
Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat
Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat, fundada l'any 1995, és un espai de debat i estudi dels encreuaments i matisos entre el feminisme i les diverses formes de textualitat dins la cultura. La revis...
revistes.ub.edu
July 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
💥💥💥CFP "Encrucijadas identitarias y transformación social: repensar los feminismos en el siglo XXI".
Fecha límite para envíos: 15 de septiembre de 2025.
Más información: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...
Fecha límite para envíos: 15 de septiembre de 2025.
Más información: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...
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Una oleada de arrestos de opositores marca las elecciones parlamentarias y regionales en Venezuela - elpais.com/america/2025...
Una oleada de arrestos de opositores marca las elecciones parlamentarias y regionales en Venezuela
Más de 70 personas, entre políticos, activistas, periodistas y abogados, han sido detenidos en dos días y acusados por el chavismo de participar en conspiraciones
elpais.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Una oleada de arrestos de opositores marca las elecciones parlamentarias y regionales en Venezuela - elpais.com/america/2025...