Representing the Barrios: Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Rebecca Jarman is associate professor of Latin American studies at the University of Leeds. Her research is situated at the intersections between culture and history in contemporary Latin America, and examines the forces, aspirations, and tensions that forge places, communities, and shared imaginaries in postcolonial and decolonial environments.