CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Ivancheva, Mariya Plamenova |
|---|---|
| Title | From revolution to reconciliation: the road of Venezuelan intellectuals to state power and the Bolivarian higher education reform |
| Summary | The figure of the socialist intellectual is charged with a peculiar theoretical paradox. While socialist intellectuals struggle to implement an egalitarian project of social change, the notion of intellectual might be seen as a class distinction,reproducing the power structures and hierarchies of the establishment. To address this paradox, I explore the roots and routes of a field of radical academic intellectuals in socialist Venezuela: their trajectories from permanent opposition into decision-making power in the higher education reform of the centralized nation state. Through participant observation and historical inquiry I explore and historicize the social agency behind the reform of higher education and the formation and transformation of its vanguard institution: the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV). Through interviews with actors engaged in the project and observation of their work I examine how the vision of an alternative university education was generated, negotiated and tailored by its creators in reference to both national and global standards. I ask if an inclusive and radical project of social change can be implemented in the locus and by the agents of a traditional and exclusive institution such as the university. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra; Kalb Don |
| Department | Sociology PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/ivancheva_mariya.pdf |
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