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Abstract
Penélope Plaza’s Culture as Renewable Oil explores how Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA used culture as a tool of territorial and political power. By conceiving oil as a cultural resource, its cultural branch, PDVSA-La Estancia, reimagined oil as a renewable resource, investing in urban restoration projects and cultural campaigns that merged bureaucracy, space, and cultural policy to extend its influence beyond oil fields and reshape urban territory.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Extractivism and Socioeconomic Issues
Natural Resources and Economic Development
Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Érès eBooks
- Pages
- 119–136
- Publication date
- 29 January 2026
- Language
- FR
- Document type
- Book chapter