{"title":"Elizabeth Barrios","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"failures-of-the-imagination-by-elizabeth-barrios-9780822948902","title":"Failures of the Imagination","description":"\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":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934023958764,"sku":"9780822948902","price":367.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780822948902-failures-of-the-imagination.jpg?v=1783890364"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/elizabeth-barrios.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}